Health Care

Poll: Americans Want Compromise

Two-thirds want Congress to pass reform bill.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans want Congress to pass comprehensive health-care reform, stalled since Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts was elected last month, ending Democrats' 60-vote supermajority. Although Brown's election has been interpreted as a rebuke to Democrats' sweeping health-care legislation, nearly 60 percent of Americans blame Republicans for not doing enough to compromise with President Obama, while 40 percent blame Obama for not forging compromise with the GOP, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds. Among independents, half say the president is too unbending, 56 percent say Republicans are, and 28 percent say both sides are being too stubborn.