Everybody wants the benefits of government without having to pay. Republicans are people who believe if they stop paying for the things they receive that the Free Market will somehow provide these things at an even cheaper price, even though this has never once happened. Democrats think that if that if they elect Democrat politicians, those elected officials will actually do what they promised they would do, even though this has never once happened.

Where did they find 21 percent Republican Party of No comrades? Traitors like that are hard to find in the voting population, which views Republicants as deserving the less than 10 percent support in Congress they poll at.

Or was this higher-than-average bias due to their using only landlines?

That said, this matches most of what I've been saying - somewhere between two-thirds and three-quarters of American citizens support single payer national health care or at least a strong public option.

The remainder, of course, hate America and miss their old dictatorships.

In the question regarding whether Americans should be required to have health insurance, I wish they had distinguished the individual mandate (requiring individuals to buy coverage from a private insurance company) from automatic enrollment in a tax-funded public insurance system. The answer to the question as posed can (and doubtless will) be misused.

Regarding medical malpractice reform, according to what I have read it hasn't reduced malpractice insurance premiums or overall healthcare costs in the states where it has been implemented. I can't explain why malpractice premiums haven't gone down. The absence of any change in overall healthcare costs suggests to me that the extra tests and procedures physicians previously claimed to be defensive medicine have either become an ingrained habit or have simply been revealed as naked meter-running. On the plus side, the families of patients who have been killed or grievously injured by egregious malpractice can't take advantage of their "lucky break" to "cash in"...

Finally, I wish the question about providing tax-funded care to illegal immigrants had been more nuanced. There are ways to at least partially fund health care for illegal immigrants -- e.g., through a national value-added tax that everyone within our borders, legally or otherwise, has to pay -- and there are ways to provide a humane amount of care to illegal residents without throwing open the doors to free-loading medical tourists.