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In a watershed moment in health care polling, Gallup has found that by a narrow 50 percent to 47 percent margin, more Americans now think that providing health care coverage should not be a responsibility of the federal government. The pollster notes that, “This is a first since Gallup began tracking this question, and a significant shift from as recently as three years ago, when two-thirds said ensuring healthcare coverage was the government’s responsibility.”

Check out the full trend since Gallup began asking the question in 2001.

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…considers. If it’s in there and the bill is enacted, it  would absolutely positively 100% guarantee the arrival of a single-payer socialist healthcare system a few years later. Of course, the American people oppose the federal government having responsibility for their healthcare. Stern also tried to distance SEIU from the embattled radical group ACORN while at the same time arguing the group’s…

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