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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Monday that the Senate legislation would provide for a public plan that would compete with private insurers on rates, but would let states opt out of it if they chose.
Seventy-two percent said it was important to give people the choice of a public option while 23 percent said it was not.
A CNN/Opinion Research poll conducted in mid-October said 61 percent favored the public option compared to 38 percent who were opposed. A Washington Post/ABC News poll from the same period put the margin of support for it at 57 percent to 40 percent. A Gallup poll had opinion more evenly divided at 50 percent to 46 percent in favor of the public option.
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