Vote of Low Confidence
Americans have a low level of trust and confidence in President Bush when it comes to improving the U.S. health care system, a Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive poll found. Only 25% of adults are “confident or very confident” that the president can reduce the percentage of Americans without health insurance, according to the online survey of more than 2,400 adults. About half (49%) of Republicans expressed this level of confidence, compared with 7% of Democrats and 19% of Independents. Respondents expressed somewhat more trust in the Democrats (45%) and potential 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) (41%) to improve the health care system than in the Republicans (31%) and President Bush (30%).