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President Obama's approval rating on health care has dropped six points since July to 40 percent, and now more Americans, 47 percent, disapprove of his handling of health care, according to a new CBS News poll taken between Aug 27 - 31.

As the president's poll numbers sink on the issue, two-thirds of Americans remain confused about the health reform proposals on the table.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/01/opinion/polls/main5280373.shtml?tag=stack

The bulk of the public does not think current reform proposals would help them. Forty-six percent say they'd have no effect on them personally and another 31 percent thinks they'd hurt. Just one in five thinks they would help.

Nor do Americans think other groups in society would benefit from reform. More think the current reform proposals would hurt rather than help the middle class (the class most Americans say they?re part of), seniors, and a key part of the U.S. economy, small businesses.

Specifically, Americans predict Congress' reform plans will cause costs to go up, quality of care to get worse, and the availability of doctors to decline. No more than one in five think Congress' current plans would make any of those areas better.

And there are also concerns about the financial impact of reform. While about half of Americans still feel reform is possible without increasing the deficit or raising middle-class taxes, more than four in 10 think that is not possible.