Democratic Leaning Poll Has Support for Ryan’s Medicare Plan Evenly Split

Published May 1, 2011 12:11pm ET



The April Kaiser Health Tracking Poll shows that, even among a group of respondents that lean Democratic by 15 points, support is divided right down the middle between leaving Medicare as it is and reforming it as Paul Ryan and the House of Representative have proposed.

Kaiser asked a group of people, nearly half of whom lean Democratic (49 percent) and barely over a third of whom lean Republican (34 percent), the following question (#14): 

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