According to NPR, "When asked whether they would support an individual mandate for health insurance, 59% said yes, as long as employers were required to provide coverage or pay a fee, and as long as there were subsidies for those with low incomes and insurance companies were required to take anyone who applies.

"But when the question was asked a different way -- without emphasizing government subsidies, employer mandates and requirements on insurance companies -- support dropped to 47 percent in favor and 44 percent against. That's an even split, given the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

"The finding suggests that support for requiring everyone to buy insurance may be iffy," according to the release issued by the poll's sponsors, NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.