{"id":462242,"date":"2010-03-23T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80093"},"modified":"2010-03-23T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:13:10","slug":"rasmussen-poll-49-percent-back-lawsuits-against-health-care-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/462242","title":{"rendered":"Rasmussen Poll: 49 Percent Back Lawsuits Against Health Care Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/healthcare\/march_2010\/49_support_state_lawsuits_against_health_care_plan\">poll<\/a> goes some way toward explaining why, as I <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/80050\/anti-health-care-reform-suits-face-steep-hurdles\">report today<\/a>, ambitious Republican politicians are clambering on board with the idea of lawsuits to repeal the health care individual mandate even though the chances of repeal are slim.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters favor their state suing the federal government to fight the requirement in the new national health care plan that every American must obtain health insurance.. 37% disagree and oppose their state suing to challenge that requirement. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The mandate doesn&#8217;t poll well in Rasmussen, and never has. Not clear from the poll: whether or not the critics realize it won&#8217;t go into effect until 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poll goes some way toward explaining why, as I report today, ambitious Republican politicians are clambering on board with the idea of lawsuits to repeal the health care individual mandate even though the chances of repeal are slim. Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters favor their state suing the federal government to fight the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}