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OBAMA & REPUBLICANS HAVE SABOTAGED SUPPORT FOR SINGLE PAYER
Progressive Review - Only 32% of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% are opposed to a single-payer plan.
Fifty-two percent believe such a system would lead to a lower quality of care while 13% believe care would improve. Twenty-seven percent think that the quality of care would remain about the same.
Forty-five percent also say a single-payer system would lead to higher health care costs while 24% think lower costs would result. Nineteen percent think prices would remain about the same.
There's wide political disagreement over the single-payer issue. Sixty-two percent of Democrats favor a single-payer system, but 87% of Republicans are opposed to one. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 22% favor a single-payer approach while 63% are opposed.
As recently as March a CBS-New York Times poll found that 59% of Americans answer yes to the question: "Should the government in Washington provide national health insurance, or is this something that should be left only to private enterprise?" This paralleled a poll a year earlier that found that 64% said the federal government should guarantee health insurance for all Americans.
Since March there has been a concentrated effort by the Democratic extremist middle - led by Barack Obama - and the Republican right to undermine support for single payer as they met the demands of private insurers. It seems to have worked.
Fifty-two percent believe such a system would lead to a lower quality of care while 13% believe care would improve. Twenty-seven percent think that the quality of care would remain about the same.
Forty-five percent also say a single-payer system would lead to higher health care costs while 24% think lower costs would result. Nineteen percent think prices would remain about the same.
There's wide political disagreement over the single-payer issue. Sixty-two percent of Democrats favor a single-payer system, but 87% of Republicans are opposed to one. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 22% favor a single-payer approach while 63% are opposed.
As recently as March a CBS-New York Times poll found that 59% of Americans answer yes to the question: "Should the government in Washington provide national health insurance, or is this something that should be left only to private enterprise?" This paralleled a poll a year earlier that found that 64% said the federal government should guarantee health insurance for all Americans.
Since March there has been a concentrated effort by the Democratic extremist middle - led by Barack Obama - and the Republican right to undermine support for single payer as they met the demands of private insurers. It seems to have worked.
posted by TPR | 12:17 PM
3 Comments:
But he's so affable, and his family is charming.
Again, this is what we all expected. If some of these Republicans shouting and yelling had heard a real debate about single-payer healthcare, they might be in favor of it. The fact of the matter is, Obama made DAMN sure no one even mentioned it, as he proffered his corporate-friendly "public option".
It takes a fair bit of wisdom to realise that even "our" president is happy to smile and smile and be a villain.
As a people, we are just too damned indiscriminate in our good-heartedness.
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