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By ROBIN TONER and JANET ELDER
Published: March 1, 2007
A majority of Americans say the federal government should guarantee
health insurance to every American, especially children, and are
willing to pay higher taxes to do it, according to the latest New
York Times/CBS News Poll.

Majority Back Health Care for All

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How the Poll Was Conducted (March 2, 2007)

Complete Poll Results

While the war in Iraq remains the overarching issue in the early
stages of the 2008 campaign, access to affordable health care is at
the top of the public's domestic agenda, ranked as far more important
than immigration, cutting taxes or promoting traditional values. Only
24 percent said they were satisfied with President Bush's handling of
the issue, despite his recent initiatives, and 62 percent said the
Democrats ˜ not the Republicans ˜ were more likely to improve the
health care system.

Americans showed a striking willingness in the poll to make tradeoffs
for a better health care system, including paying as much as $500
more in taxes a year and forgoing future tax cuts. But the same
divisions that doomed the last attempt at creating universal health
insurance, under the Clinton administration, are still apparent.
Americans remain divided, largely along party lines, over whether the
government should require everyone to participate in a national
health care plan, and over whether the government would do a better
job than the private insurance industry in providing coverage.

Looking ahead to the presidential campaign, 36 percent of Americans
said they had confidence in the ability of Senator Hillary Rodham
Clinton, the New York Democrat, to "make the right decisions on
health care," while 49 percent said they were uneasy about it. But
Mrs. Clinton, who presents herself as a sadder but wiser candidate on
health care, retained the confidence of nearly 6 in 10 Democrats on
the issue, despite the politically devastating collapse 13 years ago
of the national health initiative she helped develop early in her
husband's presidency....

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