Americans express a desire for expanding access to health care

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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.

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