54% Say Passing No Healthcare Reform Better Than Passing Congressional Plan
Thirty-five percent (35%) of American voters say passage of the bill currently working its way through Congress would be better than not passing any health care reform legislation this year. However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most voters (54%) say no health care reform passed by Congress this year would be the better option.
As various provisions from the Democrat bills have come to light, Americans are becoming more skeptical about buying this pig in the poke--the one no one has bothered even attempting to look at.
Americans don't like many policies of insurers, from bans on pre-existing conditions, to (non)portability, to lack of variety. But they know that the care they currently receive from their doctors, nurses, and other providers is top notch, and they don't want to risk losing that in a debate about insuring a lot of people who are deciding not to get their own insurance for one reason or another.
Instead of tackling the problems with health insurance that Americans are concerned about, Democrats saw the health care "debate" (one they have not wanted to have) about how to best set America on the road to a single payer system. As Rahm Emmanuel has said, Democrats didn't want to let a good crisis go to waste, and, in the process, they have managed to alert the majority of Americans to their overreaching. But it's ok, because they think you're just a bunch of crazy, racist, commie-hating mobsters anyway.
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