Great News! Growing support for a public option

There is growing support for the public option. 57 percent of all Americans now favor a public insurance option, while 40 percent oppose it. Support has risen since mid-August, when a bare majority, 52 percent, said they favored it. (In a June Post-ABC poll, support was 62 percent.)

If a public plan were run by the states and available only to those who lack affordable private options, support for it jumps to 76 percent. Under those circumstances, even a majority of Republicans, 56 percent, would be in favor of it, about double their level of support without such a limitation.

See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101902451.html?nav=rss_email/components

What do you think? Should we have a government health insurance plan to compete with private insurance or not? What if the plan was run by the state governments, would you support it then?

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