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Giving Up on Health Care Reform--And Social Security

By Doug Bandow on 7.28.09 @ 12:36AM

According to the latest Zogby poll, independents have turned against Obama-like health care "reform." Republicans and Democrats serve as mirror images of each other, but a majority of independents say no thanks to budget-busting, choice-destroying government control.

Reports Zogby:

Respondents were presented with two statements describing different universal healthcare plans and asked whether they agree or disagree with each:

Universal Plan A - "Do you agree or disagree with a universal healthcare plan that would require everyone in the U.S. to have health insurance with federal help for those who cannot pay the premiums?"

Universal Plan B - "Do you agree or disagree with a universal healthcare plan where the government would provide health insurance for everyone in the U.S. under a single-payer plan, similar to everyone having Medicare?"

Plan A

	Overall	Democrats	Independents	Republicans
Agree	49	86	43	11
Disagree	48	11	53	86
Not Sure	3	3	3	2

Plan B

	Overall	Democrats	Independents	Republicans
Agree	44	81	39	7
Disagree	52	15	57	91
Not Sure	4	5	4	2

*Numbers may not add to 100% due to rounding

Perhaps even more important over the long-term, most Americans don't believe Social Security and Medicare will be there for their kids. Most young people don't believe it will be there for them. The American people seem to be wising up!

About the Author

Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Crossway).