Would you support or oppose having the government create a new health insurance

plan to compete with private health insurance plans?

-------- Support --------

53%

--------- Oppose --------

43%

What if this government-sponsored plan

is available only to people who do not receive insurance through an employer, or

through the existing Medicare or Medicaid programs – in that case would you support or

oppose having the government create a new health insurance plan to compete with

private health insurance plans?

------- Support -------

72%

--------- Oppose --------

28%

http://abcnews.go.com/...

Some other interesting results are:

Views on abortion coverage also underscore how details matter. Sixty-one percent say insurance

policies bought using government assistance should not be allowed to include coverage for

abortions. But if the insurance companies use private funds, not public money, in providing

abortion coverage – the workaround some Democrats have proposed – support for allowing that

coverage gains very sharply, up 21 points to 56 percent.

Cover abortion?

With public funds YES-35% NO-61%

With private funds YES-56% NO-43%

Americans by 2-1, 61 percent to 31 percent, say leaders of the Republican Party are

mainly criticizing Obama without presenting other ideas, rather than offering alternatives to his

proposals. Independents, the center of politics, hold this view by 54-37 percent.

Link to ABC News article: http://abcnews.go.com/...