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That's the percentage of people who want either the individual mandate part of the Affordable Care Act struck down by the Supreme Court or the entire law itself struck down(the split is 25% want to ditch the individual mandate, 42% want the entire law tossed). Only 26% want the law upheld in its entirety.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/as-health-care-laws-trial-approaches-two-thirds-say-ditch-individual-mandate/
This is obviously not a split along partisan lines. If two thirds of the population are conservatives, then Dems shouldn't even bother running for office.
Rather, this overwhelming sentiment against the ACA is a bipartisan movement, with people of all political stripes coming out against either the individual mandate or the entire law itself. There are various reasons for this, but the simple fact is that the vast majority of Americans feel that this is a bad law.
Whether or not this law is struck down, either in part or in whole, by the Supreme Court it is obvious that much more needs to be done in terms of healthcare reform. Rather than passing another private sector reform measure, like the ACA, we have absolutely got to push through universal, single payer healthcare. Leaving this country dependent upon a corporate driven system of health care, reformed or otherwise, is simply going to continue to allow prices to be driven up and people continue to die due to lack of care.
Single payer, it is the only way to go.