WASHINGTON — Most Americans don’t expect a health care overhaul to affect their lives directly, but those who worry about the fallout outnumber those expecting to come out ahead, a poll out today has found.
The survey by the nonpartisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds that 60 percent of Americans are following the debate in Washington very closely or fairly closely.
Asked how the health care overhaul would affect their own access to medical care, 57 percent said it would stay the same. Similarly, 61 percent said their financial situation would stay about the same.
Americans split 35-35 on whether access to medical care would improve in the U.S.
The phone survey of 500 people was conducted Sept. 24 to Oct. 27. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points. The Associated Press
