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The Public Supports The Public Option

By: amalgam80

Washington : DC : USA | 27 days ago

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You know what one of the biggest lies the conservatives spread about healthcare reform and the public option?

It’s that both are not supported by the American public at large.

In order to make such a statement they have to ignore many of the elephants in the room.

Here are poll numbers from different polls:

57% of the people support healthcare reform with a public option. ABC-Washington Post poll.

57% of the people support a public option according to Kaiser Family Foundation.

53% strongly supports a public option, 30% somewhat supports it. That’s 83% that support the public option. Employee Benefit Research Institute.

61% say they approve of a public option in a CNN poll.

61% say they support the public option in a poll by the Quinnipiac University, and cited by Bloomberg.com.

Those are just some of the polls, there are more polls that pretty much show the same thing.

My favorite one is the EBRI poll, and not because it says 83% of the public supports a public option, but because the people to commission that study were “AARP, American Express, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Buck Consultants, Chevron, Deere & Company, IBM, Mercer, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Principal Financial Group, Schering-Plough Corp., Shell Oil Company, The Commonwealth Fund, and Towers Perrin.”

These companies aren’t really “liberal” leaning.

So when you read an article that says something along the lines of “Despite Strong Public Opposition, House Dems Narrowly Pass Health Care Reform”, know that the majority of the public is in support of the public option, not against it.

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amalgam80 | 27 days ago

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pollard | 27 days ago

You call conservatives liars? This is what CNN poll shows, why can't you print the real number? Liberal spin I guess. So who's the liar now?

The House bill that faces a probable Saturday vote contains a version of the public option, an insurance option administered by the federal government that would compete with plans offered by private insurance companies. According to the poll, 55 percent support the public option, with 44 percent opposed.

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amalgam80 | 27 days ago

Oh and it's 61%. Don't you get tired of me telling you to learn how to read. Why don't you click on the link and read paragraph four.

It's the one that starts with "According to the survey, 61 percent favor a public health insurance option that would compete with private plans. That's a six-point increase in support since August."

Hmmm let's see, if the article and poll I'm quoting was dated Oct. 21 and it said 61%. And it also said that it is 6 points higher than the what the poll showed in August...61-6=55.

Oh so you read an old CNN poll and tried to act like you know what I'm talking about.

Just click on the links Pollard, I made it pretty easy to check up on my facts. You just click on the blue words and it magically takes you to the polls I'm citing.

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antonianoel | 24 days ago

BAHAHAHA I love how he tried to call you a liar by providing old poll results.

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amalgam80 | 27 days ago

I'm sorry, so do majority of the people support the option, or not?

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pollard | 24 days ago

Excuse me brainless you may want to click on the updated figure genius, the ones I read are from NOVEMBER. So NO they don't!!!!!!!!!A80 you might try expanding your search away from CNN. I went their because you take what they say as proven fact.

I guess you and your loyal follower Antonia, believe that because 55% of people surveyed speaks for the rest of us. Try thinking on your own, try drawing your own conclusions, not what a survey says. In fact one of your BWL buddy's californiamike wrote a great piece about thinking for your self and quit governing by what polls say.

Do you think you can find him by yourself, if not just ask me, it's well worth the read

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amalgam80 | 24 days ago

"I guess you and your loyal follower Antonia, believe that because 55% of people surveyed speaks for the rest of us."

No the the 44% speak for you. The 55% speak for the majority. you are the minority.

It is polls that are used to say that the public option is not favorable.

I'm assuming you read this article:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/06/cnn-poll-public-wants-congress-to-keep-working-on-health-care/

It takes more than just a simple article like that to understand what the polls really said.

Where are the questions that where asked, what were the wordings and what is the context?

In October before the public option was passed in the House the stats were higher. Once we got the public option with the opt out, the percentage is lower. Where do you think those people that opposed a weaker public option would stand once the op-out PO was given?

After the house passed the opt-out PO, I was on the side of the people opposing the particular Public option.

But if you read what the article said in the beggining you'd see that about 60% of the people "say lawmakers should continue working on the legislation", not kill it.