They think a Boston Globe poll is going to tell me?
"Support for state health law rises; Residents split on coverage mandate" by Kay Lazar, Globe Staff / June 5, 2011
Support for the Massachusetts universal health care law has increased since 2009, according to a poll of the state’s residents — even as the law has become the subject of blistering attacks in national and presidential politics, and health care costs soar.
The poll by the Harvard School of Public Health and The Boston Globe found that 63 percent of Massachusetts residents support the 2006 health law, up 10 percentage points in the past two years. Just 21 percent said they were against the law.
Yet opposition has grown to one of its central elements — the requirement that people who can afford insurance buy it or face a fine. A similar provision in the national health care overhaul passed last year has been the subject of a contentious legal fight.
Forty-four percent said they oppose the mandate in the Massachusetts law, compared with 35 percent who opposed it in a 2008 poll. Still, the mandate retains the support of a narrow 51 percent majority of residents.
Percolating throughout the findings is a growing anxiety about health care costs, which are higher in Massachusetts than in the nation as a whole....
The endless stream of nothing mail and duplicates sure isn't helping -- as my premiums TRIPLE without an advance in income on my end.
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You know, it is better than nothing; however, it is a far cry from a good, decent, single-payer system like the rest of the industrialized world.
