This is a lousy sloppy article. Doesn't deserve to be disseminated for broader readership. ... "A poll conducted this week by The Washington Post of 880 Massachusetts residents who said they voted in the special election found that 68 percent support the Massachusetts plan [that's b/c they do not understand the Massachusetts Plan beyond the misleading spin that the state's power-brokers feed to the media who large lap it up and regurgitate it back to the public. The more the public learns it lacks any cost-controls and what a rip-off it is, the more the support will drop]. Even among Brown voters, slightly more than half backed the 2006 law. But support plummeted when voters were asked about health care proposals from Obama and Democrats in Congress. Just 43 percent of Massachusetts voters said they supported them [much of the nat'l bills are now give-a-ways to industry]. Among Brown voters opposition soared to about 80 percent in the poll [Duh, Brown preyed on voters' anger and insecurities re health system reform], which was released Friday and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Voters who supported Brown said they also agreed with him that the process of crafting the bill had become politically tainted." [I would expect that almost 100% of those polled would have agreed on this, as it is true.] - Ann Eldridge Malone, RN