Healthcare: Public option, more time for debate favored

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As the House prepares to take the first vote Saturday on the healthcare legislation that President Obama is seeking by year’s end, most Americans say they’d be happy with Congress taking more time to work out minor problems or major changes in the bill.

A slim majority, 53%, also say they oppose the president’s plans for a healthcare and insurance overhaul as they understand them. Yet a slightly stronger majority, 55%, say they would support a ‘public option’’ plan for healthcare run by the federal government that competes with private insurers -- which has become perhaps the most controversial element of the legislation under debate, with the House and Senate eyeing variations on a public option.

See the report on the healthcare poll in the Swamp.

-- Mark Silva