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Originally Posted by Excaliber
If you like Poll numbers, and I think they are largely irrelevant myself unless an election is VERY near, here's one you might find interesting:
From the nonpartisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:
I've said it before. MOST of the polls concerning Health Care ask the classic stupid quesiton. "Do you support it, Yes or No." Support WHAT? Heck even Congress doesn't know yet WHAT the final bill will look like, what it will include. It's still a work in progress. Many folks say "No" because the bill doesn't go far enough! They WANT a public option, they want something different with the abortion part, they want some item changed here or there. This is fundamentally why a "simple" Yes or No answer in a poll is ridiculous.
The Robert Woods foundation came a little close to getting a true feeling about what the American people think. But still, it's just another poll, can't take it to seriously.
Ridicule? HA! I aint got nothing on the conservative's around here. Many of whom have taken "ridicule" of anyone who leans left to the highest possible "expert" level.
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Mission statement from the RWF website:
"The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Our efforts focus on improving both the health of everyone in America and their health care—how it's delivered, how it's paid for, and how well it does for patients and their families."
Now who could possibly be more biased than they are? Ya think they're going to say people don't want what we're selling?
Agreeing that some reform in health care is necessary should be nearly unanimous. But that is in fixing the few problems in the best health care system on the planet. Fixing with logic, reason, and results orientated. NOT scrapping an excellent system so the worst dregs of society can have insurance they can't pay for, and putting everyone's health under Government control. Our HEALTH CARE SYSTEM HAS one MAJOR PROBLEM,
COST. Does it take a year of BS and 4000 pages to adress cost? NO! Its all about control, NOT fixing anything!