Bay State Health Reform Not Popular: "An interesting nugget from Tuesday’s Rasmussen poll on the Massachusetts Senate race:
In 2006, Massachusetts implemented its own statewide version of health care reform which has been cited as a model for the national plan. But just 32% of the state’s voters consider that reform a success. Thirty-six percent (36%) consider the plan a failure, and another 32% are not sure.
That’s fairly consistent with a prior Rasmussen survey from June.
Paul Krugman dismissed that June poll because “It asks the wrong questions.” He pointed to this June 2008 survey (pdf) from the Harvard School of Public Health, which shows 69% of Bay States support the law while only 22% oppose it, as legitimate.
Krugman doesn’t say why Rasmussen asked the wrong question. Asking respondents whether they think the law is a success or failure, as Rasmussen did, would seem to be just as legitimate as asking if they support it, as the Harvard one did. Taken together, the two polls suggest a lot of ambivalence about the Massachusetts health care law."
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