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Few Support 'Individual Mandate' in Health Care Reform Law, Poll Finds
Date:3/1/2011

ealth insurance because of their age or health history," said Nancy LeaMond, executive vice president of AARP's State and National Group. "The implementation of the ACA, which includes the individual mandate, is necessary to keep insurance companies from blocking coverage due to a person's age or pre-existing conditions, or dropping coverage when someone gets sick."

Other arguments in favor of the individual mandate didn't get majority support in the new poll. For example, more people (54 percent) disagreed than agreed (46 percent) with this statement: "If it is constitutional for the states to require people to buy car insurance or wear seat belts, it should be constitutional for the federal government to require people to buy health insurance if they do not already have it."

There are parts of the Affordable Care Act that still garner widespread support among Americans. For example, a majority of both Republicans and Democrats like the provision that bars insurance companies from refusing to cover people with pre-existing conditions.

"The individual mandate is the most controversial portion of the Affordable Care Act. Less than one-quarter of those surveyed support it," Herrick noted. "Yet, there is strong public support that people with pre-existing conditions should not face discrimination when purchasing coverage. The problem for policymakers is how to reconcile these two conflicting views."

The Harris Interactive poll of 3,419 Americans over the age of 18 was conducted online within the United States between Feb. 16-18.

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Read more about the poll methodology and findings at Harris Interactive.

SOURCES: Humphrey Taylor, chairman, The Harris Poll; Devon M. Herrick, Ph.D., senior fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas; Nancy LeaMond, executive vice president, AARP's State and National Group, Washington,
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