Poll: More Think Health Care Reform Isn’t Ambitious Enough
Could Obama’s dip to new lows on health care be driven partly by the fact that the reform proposal isn’t ambitious enough?
The internals of the new CBS poll suggest that this could be the case: They show that more people think reform doesn’t go far enough in multiple ways than think it goes too far.
The CBS poll finds that Obama’s approval rating on health care has dipped to 36%. But the poll also asked whether people think the reform proposal, in various ways, goes too far, is about right, or doesn’t go far enough:
In every one of those polled — covering Americans, controlling costs, and regulating insurance companies — more think the bill doesn’t go far enough.
To be sure, Americans seem close to evenly divided on the question of whether the proposal goes too far or not far enough. But the latter category outnumbers the former, suggesting that the desire that reform be more ambitious is a key factor driving dissatisfaction with Obama — even though that possibility is rarely discussed by the big news orgs or by top-shelf pundits.
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Scott C.
It’s probably silly of us to keep debating this. But, there are other things not in the current bill which would drive down costs of both health care and insurance coverage.
Examples: Drug re-importation, laws against pharmaceutical advertising, repeal of anti-trust exemption with a public option offered, ending once and for all fee for service practices in the medical profession, simplifying billing and medical records, ending fraud and abuse in both the government and private sector. Some of these are beginning to be addressed in the House bill particularly and partially in the Senate bill.
Fee for service is when the contractual obligation is between the insurer and the patient and is based on approved services by a physician, labratory, hospital etc.
Doctors are paid by the service rather than an outcome. The abuse of this system is rampant.
Actually they were convinced that it would lead to ever more people becoming dependent upon the state. Lo and behold, they were right.
Actually they were afraid their fairy tale of rugged individualism would be shown to be what it has always been – a fairy tale.
Social Security has reduced poverty better than anything else that the USA or any of its citizens has ever done.
If you call that state dependence and decry it as such I pity you and your pathetic, useless political philosophy.
odd:
If you call that state dependence…
Q: If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?
A: 4. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.
You can call SS whatever you want. It is simply a fact that people who depend upon SS for their income are financially dependent upon the state. People who depend upon medicare/medicaid for their health care are finaincially dependent upon the state. People who depend upon welfare, or unemployment, or any of the other myriad of ways in which the government transfers wealth are in fact financially dependent upon the state.
These are not value judgments. They are facts. You may think (and I assume you do) that it is a good thing to induce people to become more financially dependent on the state, but if so, you should be upfront about it and not pretend that you are advocating for something else.
Dishonest right winger “Scott C.” describes “the state” as if it is independent of “We the People”, a common tactic of right wingers who are trying to cripple “We the People[s]” ability to decide for OURSELVES how to govern our country.
Right winger “Scott C.” comes from the sociopathic Ayn Rand strain of political ideology:
http://michaelprescott.net/hickman.htm
Given that the details of the bill are not something that most people fully understand, so much of the content in this poll is reflecting how people have received their information from the media. Because the media has largely focused on the controversies, much of the under advertised real content in the bill is likely being short changed.
Why do the polling percentages add up to less than 90% for each question?
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Nick, I feel your pain on that and agree it’s a distinct possibility.
More and more I think Josh Marshall’s point about how “Washington is wired for the GOP” is the most salient one I’ve heard since the last election cycle began.
Someone needs to write a smart book that gets down to the bone on why that is.
This blog was a very good read! I couldn’t have explained things better myself.