NYT Buries Poll Result Showing Overwhelming Support for Public Health Care Option

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A new NYT poll found that the overwhelming majority of the public support giving people the option to be into a Medicare-type plan. The margin was 65 percent in favor and just 26 percent opposed. This was by far the strongest positive result related to President Obama's health care reform proposal. Many readers might have missed this striking poll result. It was only mentioned halfway through the second web page in a single paragraph.

--Dean Baker

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