If the Washington Post poll is to be believed, 56% of Americans support a law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, either getting it from work, buying it on their own, or through eligibility for Medicare or Medicaid. 41% opposes it…but even that number drops by a third when folks who are against it are told that low-income families will receive government subsidies that will help them to afford this insurance that they'd be required to purchase. That's a pretty solid majority of this country that's behind individual mandates.
In other news, Newt Gingrich makes what he calls a "straightforward promise;" that if any of this stuff passes, Republicans will make repealing Health Care Reform a major campaign issue in 2010 and 2012. I can't wait.