New Rasmussen Reports Poll Results The latest results (61% Expect Health Care Costs to Go Up Under Obamacare - Latest Numbers) from Rasmussen Reports are now available. Favorable views of the national health care law have fallen to a new low for 2013, while the number of voters who expect the law to increase health care costs has risen to its highest level in over two-and-a-half years. Just 36% of Likely U.S. Voters now have at least a somewhat favorable opinion of the health care law, down from the previous low of 38% a week ago. Fifty-eight percent (58%) share at least a somewhat unfavorable view of the law, unchanged from the previous survey. These findings include 17% with a Very Favorable opinion of Obamacare and 46% with a Very Unfavorable one, a high for the year. Sixty-one percent (61%) predict that the cost of health care will go up under the new law. That’s up 10 points from a month ago and the highest level of pessimism since early March 2011. Only 17% think health care costs will go down because of the law, while 14% say they will stay about the same. From the start of the debate that led to the passage of the law by Congress in March 2010, voters have cited cost as their biggest health care concern. Just 25% of voters believe the quality of health care will get better under Obamacare. Fifty-one percent (51%) think health care will get worse, the most negative view in just over a year. Eighteen percent (18%) expect it to stay the same.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:26:40 +0000
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