{"id":945,"date":"2009-09-28T14:52:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2009-09-28T14:59:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T18:59:33","slug":"support-for-health-care-reform-continues-to-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/945\/support-for-health-care-reform-continues-to-sink\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for ObamaCare Continues to Sink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more Americans learn about what Congress is doing to reform the nation\u2019s health care system, the less the American people support it.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/healthcare\/september_2009\/health_care_reform\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmussen Reports survey<\/a>, support among nationwide voters for the reform\u00a0plan(s) being pushed by President Obama and Congressional Democrats has shrunk to 41%, with 56% of voters opposing it.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s down two points from a week ago and the lowest level of support yet measured,\u201d writes Rasmussen.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable numbers revealed by the survey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 33% of senior citizens support the plan compared to the 59% who are opposed.<\/li>\n<li>A mere\u00a016% of\u00a0voters over the age of 65\u00a0\u201dStrongly Favor\u201d the legislation, while 46% are \u201cStrongly Opposed.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>75% of Democrats support the reform being considered by Congress.<\/li>\n<li>79% of Republicans are opposed.<\/li>\n<li>72% of independent voters \u2014 those who don\u2019t affiliate with either major political party \u2014 are opposed.<\/li>\n<li>Among all voters surveyed, 23% \u201cStrongly Favor\u201d the\u00a0plan\u00a0vs. 43% who are \u201cStrongly Opposed.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more Americans learn about what Congress is doing to reform the nation\u2019s health care system, the less the American people support it. According to the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, support among nationwide voters for the reform\u00a0plan(s) being pushed by President Obama and Congressional Democrats has shrunk to 41%, with 56% of voters opposing it.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,85],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-rasmussen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}