Oklahoma Poll
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January 17, 2010
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Bill Shapard

Voters against health-care bill

Sixty-three percent of those polled opposed Congress' measure.

Whether it's Hervey Barbour, who sees health-care reform as the framework for an all-encompassing bureaucracy, or John Jinks, who suspects it is just another way for doctors and drug companies to make money, Oklahomans don't trust Washington to get health-care reform right.

Sixty-three percent of those surveyed in the most recent Oklahoma Poll opposed the measure being forged in Congress. More than half thought health-care reform would negatively affect them.

"Generally, I think the bill that's in Congress is crap," said poll respondent Barbour, a retiree from Pryor. "It is not really reform. They're trying to get control of the American people."

Even a majority of Oklahomans without insurance opposed health-care reform, although not necessarily for the same reasons as Barbour.

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Bill Shapard
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Bill Shapard

Bill is the founder of SoonerPoll.com and ShapardResearch, a full service market research firm based in Oklahoma City. Bill began his career in polling after working on major campaigns for both Republicans and Democrats in Oklahoma from 1996 until founding SoonerPoll in 2004.