CBS Poll: Fix Medicare, but not with the Republican plan

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Joan McCarter
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/13/984702/-CBS-Poll:-Fix-Medicare,-but-not-with-the-Republican-plan?via=blog_1
CBS has new polling out today that shows a dichotomy best displayed in these two graphs.






In other words, they've been convinced by unrelenting Beltway and media focus on a failing Medicare that the program is in dire straits, but they still hate the Republican Vouchercare.

A new CBS News poll shows that Americans have mixed feelings about what should happen to Medicare: While 53 percent say the program needs fundamental changes, 58 percent say it should continue the way it is set up now.

Americans were asked which of three statements comes closest to their views: "Medicare works pretty well and only minor changes are necessary to make it work better"; "There are some good things about Medicare, but fundamental changes are needed"; or "Medicare has so much wrong with it that we need to completely rebuild it."



Poll: Most want Medicare changes, but wary of GOP plan
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Just 31 percent, meanwhile, said Medicare should become "a program that gives senior citizens payments towards the purchase of private insurance." Even among Republicans, less than half (43 percent) support turning Medicare into a payment program.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20070620-503544.html?tag=contentMain

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