Igor Volsky reports that public opinion toward healthcare reform is starting to thaw a bit:
Just days after Republicans released their third “bill” to repeal the health care law, a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll finds that “given the option to name the sections of the healthcare law they would most like to see the GOP repeal, 42 percent [of Americans] said they would leave the bill alone and repeal no parts.”
….Polling for the new health care law doesn’t show the kind of “bump” Democrats had expected, but the numbers are slowly improving. For instance, according to a May 2010 Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, 55% of Americans said health reform should have a chance to work, versus 42% who said repeal and start over.
Stay tuned. I expect these numbers to get slowly better over time. They might or might not shift enough to make a difference in November’s election, but they’re going to shift.
