Tampa area Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Castor thinks the new House Republicans are making a big mistake by focusing on repealing health care as their signature initial item to address this week in Congress, and apparently more Americans are starting to side with her.

An AP-Gfk poll released on Sunday, finds 40 percent support the new law, and 41% oppose it, with only a quarter want to do away with it completely.

Meanwhile, House Republicans – led by their leader, John Boehner – begin debate Tuesday with a scheduled vote on Wednesday to repeal the federal health care bill that they vowed to do on the campaign trail last year, which Boehner says calls a "job-killer." In fact, the entire GOP establishment officially calls it the"Repealing the Job-Killing Health-Care Law Act,". When asked where they get the idea that the bill's implementation would cost large number of jobs to be lost, the Republicans cite a CBO report.

However, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post last Friday blogged that

The report never says the bill will kill jobs. What it says, rather, is that the law will slightly reduce labor. It's not that employers will fire workers. It's that potential workers — particularly older ones — will retire somewhat earlier. "The expansion of Medicaid and the availability of subsidies through the exchanges will effectively increase beneficiaries’ financial resources. Those additional resources will encourage some people to work fewer hours or to withdraw from the labor market."

And remember when Republicans said their number one focus was on trimming the deficit? That was of course, before they squeezed Barack Obama into a tax cut package that will make us $858 billion poorer in that department. And repealing health care? According to a recent CBO report, that will put another $230 billion on to the deficit.