Nearly a year after the health care law was passed, most voters still favor repealing the overhaul -- by a double-digit margin, according to a new poll.

A Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday reveals most voters believe the law will increase the cost of health care, increase the federal deficit and erode the quality of care. Though the Obama administration stepped up its public defense of the law in advance of an unsuccessful repeal vote in the Senate, the numbers suggest many Americans are not accepting the administration's arguments.

The study found 58 percent of likely voters favor repeal to some degree, with 44 percent strongly supporting it. Thirty-seven percent oppose repeal, with 26 percent strongly opposing it.

The findings are similar to those in earlier Rasmussen surveys. In the latest poll, 56 percent said health care costs will go up under the law; 52 percent said quality will go down; and 58 percent said the law will increase the federal deficit -- something the Congressional Budget Office says is not the case.

Voters, however, don't have a chance to affect the health care debate until 2012. And Republicans are regrouping after their repeal bill passed the House but failed in the Senate last week. Instead, the battle plays out in the courts, as federal judges issue conflicting rulings that are almost certain to come before the Supreme Court.

The most recent ruling was issued last week by a Florida federal judge, who ruled that the individual mandate requiring people to buy health insurance is unconstitutional and that the law itself should be voided. The Obama administration is appealing the decision.

The Rasmussen poll of 1,000 likely voters was conducted Feb. 4-5. It had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/08/favor-health-care-law-repeal-poll-shows/#

There are problems with polls like this. 1) Rasmussen consistently gives a pronounced edge to the Conservatives 2) NONE of the polls ask the correct questions. An honest poll would ask:

a) Do you want the ACA to remain?
b) Do you want the ACE to be repealed because it is too liberal?
c) Do you want the ACE to be repealed because it isn't liberal enough?

Here we go with the faux news network again.

It is proven they do not report "fair and balanced"

Were the one thousand people half repub and half dem?

How do the respondents know that health care costs will rise because of the bill from faux news?

Why not look back on mandatory auto insurance! Just becasue they cap fees does not mean they will not invent more to throw at us!

"increase the cost of health care and erode the quality of care"

Hate to tell you but it has already had this effect. I work in the health field and see it everyday!

Biased before the actual event maybe?

The health care bill hasn't even had an effect in anything yet.

IF there are any changes you can thank the billion dollar health care agencies for getting mad and taking it out on it's patrons.

Yes, the insurance companies will do everything possible to maintain current profit margins, and car insurance is just one place that they can do that. But, I think we are talking about Obamacare.

On the face of it, it seemed that Obamacare only encouraged the insurance companies to raise premiums, which is why I was along with people like Dennis Kucinich and Russ Feingold, who voted against it. The one ray of hope is the provision in Obamacare that requires that 80% (I think) of every premium dollar be spent on actual health care. That would be a cap on profits, not a price control. It's still way too low IMO when compared to 97% that would be prescribed under single payer.

Um Rasmussen is aa Liberal leaning polling company. They are also the most accurate polling company out there and I have even seen you post their results when it suits you.

Did I say anything about Rasmussun?

However, several weeks later, in the wake of the North Korean Missile Crisis and the 2006 Lebanon War, Fox saw a surge in viewership and remained the #1 rated cable news channel. Fox still held eight of the ten most-watched nightly cable news shows, with The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes] coming in first and second places, respectively.

FNC ranked #8 for all cable channels in 2006 and #6 in 2007. The news channel surged to #1 during the week of Barack Obama's election (November 3–9) in 2008 and reached the top spot again in January 2010 during the week of the special Senate election in Massachusetts. Comparing Fox to its 24-hour news channel competitors, for the month of May 2010 the channel drew an average daily prime time audience of 1.8 million versus 747 000 for MSNBC and 595 000 for CNN.

In January 2010, Public Policy Polling reported that Fox News was the most trusted television news channel in the country with 49% of respondents stating they trust Fox News. Fox also scored the lowest level of distrust with only 37%, and was the only channel to score a net positive in that regard, with a +12%. CNN scored second in the poll with 39% of those polled stating that they trusted the news channel, and 41% stating distrust, a -2% net score.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_news#Ratings_and_reception

They conducted the poll not Fox News.

That's not what this article says.

Do you realize that this is the same garbage about fox posted over and over.

Fox watchers are not exactly well informed so naturally they will say they trust it.

Wasn't Joseph Goebbels the most trusted and successful propagandist in Germany?

Hate and Fear is what they mean by fair and balanced on Fox News Network

Please pardon the interuption...

What does hating and or bashing fox news have to do with a RASSMUSSUN POLL...?

Or are you attempting to layer so many posts over the poll results that people can't see it.

As someone else posted above...

this company has had the most accurate polls from any I have seen... when you compare results AFTER an event based upon what they analysied results would be from polls taken BEFORE the event.

and they report results even when they don't like the results...

That didn't come from the source that I cited, did it? Where did it come from?

Well...

I don't trust the media that exists in this country (or anywhere in the world)... So I check everything.

I don't trust the politicians that exist in this country... so I use this wonderful resource called the internet to check things.

when you database a series of political polls (by pollster)... then go back and check those polls against the actual vote that occured after the polls...

You find that most of the reporting in this country is lie based ideology.

you find that most polls are lie based skewing or outright attempts by the polling organization to manipulate the results.

I like to investigate things my self...

my results hardly ever show the news/opinion/official information to be quite like they say it is.

Depends upon their slant...

and yeah I know that I have (personaly) no credibility or 'net worth' or 'official license'...

but I know I can trust me... And my research shows me that very few people that have 'official license' or 'credibility' tell the truth... On air, in print or by internet... They all 'spin' to the side of ideology.

I wouldn't argue with that, but nonetheless, it looks to me like the analysts who have done the research (as per the NY Times article) conclude that Rasmussen is consistenly badly biased toward the Conservative side. They found serious discrepancies between pre-election polls and actual results. (Read the article!) Perhaps you take issue with their methodology. We don't know anything about your methodology. Whose findings should we give credence to? (Sorry for ending the sentence with a preposition).