Americans want health care bill, but not the cost

There are days I would like to party like a rock star and hammer like a porn star but that doesn't mean I wouldn't be thinking about the cost along with that wish. it sounds great as long as you don't worry about consequences.

The same goes for Americans who want free health care! but don't like the cost. Nothing in life is free and in this case for Obamacare, you are not going to like the choices.

By 56%-33%, those surveyed endorse the idea of enacting major health care changes this year. Just one in four say it's not important to them. When it comes to financing the costs, six of 10 favor the idea of requiring employers to provide health insurance for their workers or pay a fee instead. Increasing income taxes on upper-income Americans, an approach backed by House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is endorsed by 58%. Just over half support taxing sugary soft drinks. By 53%-43%, though, those surveyed oppose taxing health care benefits above a certain level — Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., had floated that idea — and even more are against cutting Medicare costs, a provision of House and Senate plans. "The dilemma is that Congress is trying to solve two problems simultaneously: save money and insure more people," says Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy at Harvard. Those focused on costs are likely to have little tolerance for paying higher taxes to cover the uninsured, he says. In the poll, 52% choose controlling costs as more important; 42% cite expanding coverage.