Kyle Bell

Despite all of the vitriol from a vocal minority in this country, a vast majority of Americans support a public health insurance option. A Survey USA poll taken on August 20, 2009 finds that 58 percent of Americans believe that it is “extremely important” to have a public option. Another 19 percent believes that it is “quite important” to have the option. Only 15 percent say that it is “not important at all.”

Here’s the exact wording of the question:

“In any health care proposal, how important do you feel it is to give people a choice of both a public plan administered by the federal government and a private plan for their health insurance–extremely important, quite important, not that important, or not at all important?”