62 percent supported a government option, that fell to 37 percent if it put many private insurers out of business. And the public split essentially evenly on a personal mandate, but with great variation depending on the particulars.
Again, support for reform is there; when we rolled up the main pieces of the House plan in our new poll this week, 54 percent favored it. But “strong” support and “strong” opposition were even (a third each), and this was without the pushback language that so reliably resonates.
