It seems that as health-care reform moves along and more coverage is given, the public likes it less and less. Rasmussen tells us:
Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the plan. Half the survey was conducted before the Senate voted late Saturday to begin debate on its version of the legislation. Support for the plan was slightly lower in the half of the survey conducted after the Senate vote.
And Obama’s overall approval rating is also heading downward as his signature piece of legislation gets closer to passage. So Congress is going to pass on a party-line vote a hugely expensive bill that less than 40 percent of the public likes. And by the time they finish debating it, public approval could drop to less than a third. No wonder Democrats wanted this passed in August.