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The "Public Option"? That's a Heavy Metal Band, Right?

By Philip Klein on 10.15.09 @ 10:04AM

While liberals have been boasting that a majority of Americans want a government-run health care plan to be included in final legislation, a new Pew poll finds that just 56 percent of Americans even know that it has something vaguely to do with health care. As for the rest of the public, 11 percent thinks it has to do with either banking regulation, unemployment, or energy policy -- and 33 percent wouldn't even wager a guess.

Via Political Wire.

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…we’re talking about creating a public option that nobody would be eligible for.” (emphasis his) The American Spectator’s Philip Klein is also wary of the public’s grasp of policy: As I noted last week, a Pew poll found that only 56 percent of the public recognized that the “public option” had something vaguely to do with the issue of health care, while 11 percent thought it had to…