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Health Care

Health care is an issue currently
receiving urgent attention. In polls
of national priorities, health care
consistently ranks near the top. A
CBS/New York Times poll in February
2007, for instance, showed 70 percent
of Americans considered the lack of
health insurance a “very serious”
problem.
Moreover, Americans are looking
to the government to solve this
problem. More than twice as many
people (69 percent vs. 28 percent)
think it is the responsibility of the
federal government to make sure
all Americans have access to health
coverage.
Even posed against a long-standing
and seemingly appealing alternative—
tax cuts—Americans express a
preference for expanding access to
heath care. More than three-quarters
(76 percent) polled by CBS News
and The New York Times in February
said access to health care was more
important than maintaining the Bush
tax cuts—and three in five said they
would be willing to have their own
taxes increased to achieve universal

coverage.

http://home.ourfuture.org/assets/200...ity_report.pdf