Support for Massachusetts Health Care Law Increases

Who Is Going to Tell the Republicans?

With Mitt Romney the leading candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination, the Health Care Law he devised and signed into law while Governor of that state has taken center stage in the national debate over health care.  The state “takeover” of health care, along with the mandate that all citizens have health insurance has made opposition to the Mass. Plan a centerpiece of Republican politics.

A June 5 story in the Boston Globe finds that’s there has been a significant increase in support for the plan.  The survey found that 63% of the population, up from 53% two years ago,  supported the plan and only 21% opposed it.  Opposition to the individual mandate did grow, but a very small majority support the mandate.

The lesson from all this is more national than Republican, as party members and supporters will not be swayed by these numbers.  At the national level, the Obama health care plan may not be the toxic topic it was in the 2010 elections, good news for Democrats who are going to need all the good news they can get.