Excerpt: Our polls have long shown that the American people support regulatory action in health, even when they are given the arguments for and against it. This has been true even when the mood in Washington was pro-market and anti-regulatory. This is not surprising, since people are not really ideological about these things; they just want relief from health care costs and will support regulatory or market approaches if they think they will deliver it. What has changed is the appetite among policymakers for regulation and oversight in health.  MORE >>