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A Washington Post/ABC News poll found that public support for health care legislation rose only slightly in response to President Obama's much-hyped health care speech last week. The poll found that 46 percent supported legislation and 48 opposed, compared with 45 percent support and 50 percent opposition in the last poll, taken mid August. Interestingly, the poll also found that 41 percent said the more they hear about the health care proposal, the more they like it, compared to 54 percent who say that the more they hear about it, the less they like it.

If anything, I think these numbers overstate support for Obama's health care initiative. The reason is that right now people are responding in a broad sense to what they think health care legislation is. For instance, some respondents may support legislation only because they don't think it will include a government plan, while others may be supportive because they think the final bill will include a government-run plan. Ultimately, Congress and the White House will have to start making actual decisions about what parts of legislation to keep and dump, and how to finance it. As that process drags on, I would bet that we'll start to see support drop.

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TennesseeVolunteer| 9.14.09 @ 4:48PM

Obama and gibbs keep saying that they won't cover illegal aliens in their bill, or they won't cover abortions in their bill. when challenged from HR 3200, they keep on saying 'their bill' won't have it.
Of course, the only problem, their bill is not in writing, so we'll have to trust what they say they will do. And then, they will say 'we have to pass it right away before everybody reads the fine print'!
They mislead and lie in everything they do. What they intend to control from this legislation must be unbelievably powerful for them to try to pull the wool over everyone's eyes.
The good thing.. the American people are on to them..and we aren't going away.
Great job on 9-12!
It is time for our re-education camps (letters, emails, town halls etc.) for current politicians or they are out in the next elections!

jr| 9.14.09 @ 5:52PM

Obama and Gibbs. That's peat and repeat. Lie and re-lie as an alternative.

John - TMF| 9.14.09 @ 6:03PM

It is important to digest these numbers within the context that they are derived. The truth is that ABC/WaPo polls always give about an 8 to 10 point French kiss to the Democrat in any culturally significant poll. (Sample group, not end numbers, though the consistant 4-8 point love pat that results in the 8-10 cushion in the sample group is evident.)

So the reality is that these numbers are probably lower by 4 to 8 percent. (Even if we split the diff and call it 6, it is a big piece of political cake to swallow.)

So in reality 52% of the people (consistent with Rasmussen's polls) think that the Dems are all wet.

People wanted access to insurance, better insurance choices, tax relief for medical expenses, choice in what to have covered and what not to have covered. They did not want bankrupt and floundering Medicare for everybody... except maybe AARP who stands to rake in huge amounts of money with Medigap insurance plans to cover the tons of things that Medicare won't touch.

Which is part of the entire rub. The people backing this move to Socialized medicine are those who stand to rake in huge personal profits over its adminstration and supplementation.

Now up to 52% of the American public has or is beginning to see that what the Democrats have in store is not reform but take-over. Moreover, what we will get for that is our pocket books drained in huge tax increases, poor care, and a dwindling pool of medical professionals to perform the services.

Of course the Fee for Service Resort Clinics for the Wealthy will be booming in Mexico and the Carribean.

The rich will fly to Bimini for that colonoscopy, and spend a few days on the beach recovering from the whole ordeal. Meanwhile Joe Average will wait six months for a clinic visit to wonder if they cleaned the 20 year old mess that looks more like a drain snake than a medical instrument. (doubt that? Just ask all of those poor VA hospital patients treated in similar fashion to unsterilized instruments...)

Keep it coming. Blanke the US with Gadsden Flags. Don't let The One, tread on you.

r/The Mighty Fahvaag

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Jim O'Brien| 9.14.09 @ 9:06PM

Supposedly, Obama and his socialist Congress are working on "the details". Translation: they are calculating what they can get away with, how much they can do to destroy free enterprise in the medical world, without being defeated in the next election. They will eventually vote on something which is a thousand pages long, and there will be a rush to vote before the public has a chance to comprehend it, or object. More socialism will be shoved down our throats. We and our grandchildren will pay the consequences of our representatives' deceit, demagoguery, and gross incompetence.

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