December 13-16, 2012: ABC News/Washington Post Poll—Nationwide poll on cutting Medicaid spending to avoid the fiscal cliff۪.
In order to strike a budget deal that avoids the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’, would you accept…cutting spending on Medicaid, which is the government health insurance program for the poor, or is this something you would find unacceptable? (If Acceptable/Unacceptable, ask:) Do you feel that way strongly or somewhat?
13% Accept-strongly
16% Accept-somewhat
16% Unacceptable-somewhat
53% Unacceptable-strongly
3% No opinion
Methodology: Conducted by ABC News/Washington Post, December 13 – December 16, 2012 and based on 1,002 telephone interviews. Sample: National adult. Interviews were conducted by Abt SRBI. The interviews included landline and cell-phone-only respondents. [USABCWP.121812.R17A]
Formal Citation
ABC News/Washington Post Poll, Dec, 2012. Retrieved Jan-9-2013 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html