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HARRIS: America's view of the new health care reform law. National political correspondent Jessica Yellin, part of "The Best Political Team on Television," live from Washington. Jess, good to see you. What do you have for us?</s>JESSICA YELLIN, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Tony. Well, a new poll from CNN shows that when it comes to health care reform, guess what, Americans want all the gain but none of the pain. At least that's what the polling suggests. So, look at this. The so-called mandate, the provision that would require that all Americans get health insurance, only 38 percent of Americans support that, but 60 percent oppose it. But check this out. Flip those numbers. When you ask people, do you want -- do you like the provision preventing insurance companies from dropping coverage for seriously ill people, 61 percent favor, 39 percent oppose. And then again, the provision preventing insurance companies from denying coverage for people with preexisting conditions, 64 percent of people favor that. A lot of approval for those protections, but not for the mandate.</s>HARRIS: Yes.</s>YELLIN: The problem with that, Tony, is, many of the experts say it's that mandate requiring even healthy people to get insurance coverage that allows for those other provisions to exist so that insurance companies can afford to cover the ill. Hard to see how you have one without the other. That's going to be a challenge as people take on this law -- as policymakers take on this law going forward. Another story and another big challenge when Congress comes back into session next week, you know, the GOP has said that they want to slash $100 billion in spending. John Boehner is going to do it, he says, but he doesn't want to cut Social Security, Medicare or defense. Those are the big ticket items. So that means that money is going to have to come from other programs that most voters really -- that many voters really like, at least. Things that come to you in the form of benefits -- education, health and human services, and they're going to have to find ways in some of those soft programs to find the cuts. That's going to be a huge political challenge in the new Congress.</s>HARRIS: Yes.</s>YELLIN: So those are two hard news stories.</s>HARRIS: Well, I've got one more question for you if I can sneak in here for just a second, Jess.</s>YELLIN: Yes.</s>HARRIS: It's also that time where there are lots of year-end polls, right?</s>YELLIN: Of course.</s>HARRIS: And my understand is you've got one on popular men?</s>YELLIN: Yes. We have one of the most -- who is the American that people most admire. The man and the woman. The most admired man, President Obama. The most admired woman, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Together again.</s>HARRIS: Yes.</s>YELLIN: It's pretty remarkable that they remain hugely popular. No matter what your politics are, people seem to admire their accomplishments, Tony.</s>HARRIS: You're absolutely right about that. Jess, good to see you and happy holidays to you.</s>YELLIN: See you. You too.</s>HARRIS: Appreciate it. Your next political update coming in one hour. For the latest political news, just go to cnnpolitics.com.