ABSTRACT
In mid-February 2012, CBS News and the New York Times released the results of a survey showing that 67 percent of Americans believed that, in an effort to shrink the federal budget deficit, households that earn more than $1 million a year should pay higher taxes. A month earlier, the Kaiser Family Foundation had conducted a poll on health care. Nearly two years after the passage of the Obama Administration’s massive reform bill, 40 percent of Americans wanted either to replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with a Republican alternative or to scrap health care reform altogether.
