Health Affairs Blog:Can Slumping Support For Health Care Reform Be Turned Around?

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by S. Ward Casscells and Hiliary Critchley

When polled at the end of September, fewer than three in ten Americans supported the health reform legislation being considered by the Senate Finance Committee. However, we also found respondents willing to engage in the health reform discussion by reading a detailed summary of the Finance Committee bill plus ten potential amendments.

In our survey, the first in which Americans were given an opportunity to “design the bill themselves,” we found that the adoption of three amendments to the Finance Committee package had the potential to significantly change public attitudes toward the bill.

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