As the House of Representatives settles in to repealing the health care reform bill, a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll shows American voters are wary of a few provisions, but less than 20 percent actually favor repeal.
According to the poll, 46 percent think the law's likely to cut jobs, 8 points more than think it'll create them. More, 54 percent, think it's more apt to hurt than help the economy. And 62 percent see it as increasing rather than decreasing the federal deficit. 
For all that, fewer than four in 10 – 37 percent – favor repealing all or parts of the law; the rest either support it, or want to wait and see. And just 18 percent favor repealing it entirely, as the Republican leadership in Congress seeks.
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