A new analysis by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life looks at what drives Americans’ views on the health-care debate and finds that it appears to be primarily political ideology and allegiance rather than religious affiliation:

Most Republicans and people who lean Republican oppose health-care reform. By contrast, Democrats and Democratic leaners tend to favor health-care reform. Among religious groups, fewer than one in five white evangelical Protestants (18 percent)—who are largely conservative and identify with or lean toward the Republican Party—favor the bills before Congress to overhaul the health-care system, while support jumps to more than half of the religiously unaffiliated (54 percent), most of whom identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party.
Earlier Pew Research Center polling found that most Americans support the idea of extending health insurance to every citizen. In a March 2009 survey, before the debate on health-care reform heated up, six in 10 Americans (61 percent)—including 48 percent of white evangelicals, 55 percent of Catholics, 56 percent of mainline Protestants, and fully three-quarters of the religiously unaffiliated (72 percent)—said they favored a government guarantee of health insurance for all citizens, even if it would mean raising taxes.