Posted on 11/27/2009 5:36:23 PM PST by RobinMasters
A poll released today shows Americans' belief in the current health care system has risen dramatically in the last year, and support for a socialized solution to a health care "crisis" has nearly evaporated.
The latest results from Rasmussen Reports show 49 percent of Americans now rate the quality of U.S. health care system as good or excellent, to only 27 percent that still argue it's poor.
The favorable numbers reflect a 20-point jump from prior to the presidential election, when a June 2008 Rasmussen poll showed only 29 percent rated the health care system so well and 37 percent rated it poor.
Furthermore, the more government reform of health care has been in the national spotlight, the more Americans have grown to appreciate a private health care industry.
The 49 percent rating the U.S. system as good or excellent reflects a rise from 29 percent last year, to 35 percent in May and 44 percent at the beginning of October.
"Those opposed to Mr. Obama's reform appear to have momentum on their side," writes pollster Scott Rasmussen in a Wall Street Journal editorial. "It appears that the prospect of changing health care has made the existing system look better to a lot of people."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Ping.
What a bunch of puppets.
I now make it a point to disbelieve everything my government tells me. And everything I hear from so-called “scientists”.
I’m gratified to see these results but where were these people’s heads a year ago? Up each other’s arses? How can so many Americans be so wishy-washy about protecting and defending the constitution of the United States?
America has a Big Government crisis.
It’s a scam so they can steal more of our money.
Sometimes I feel negative about the wisdom of Americans similar to what you're expressing here. But I do think what's happened/happening is that there is a paradigm shift and Americans are just waking up to it. The shift is that most had assumed that politicians basically had their best interests at heart and that scientists were honest. Neither of those are entirely true, and the first is rarely true at all. When I've talked with my mother, who is in a retirement home, about some of the extreme things Obama and his gang have said she simply doesn't believe they'd say such things. Politicians are so extreme people just don't believe their ears.
Thanks to public education, most Americans have no idea what the Constitution is, much less the benefits it has bestowed upon the nation nor the freedoms it guarantees.
Don’t believe in Healthcare Crisis
Don’t believe in Global Warming
Don’t believe in Cap and Tax
Don’t believe in Same Sex Marriage
Don’t believe in Algore, Obama, Jokin Joe Biden, Dingy Harry or Nurse Nancy who are trying to shove all the above up our collective asses
Spot on. Go to the public library and read the books made to prepare our “top” students for the AP US history exam. You’ll be shocked at the short shrift given say - individual liberty.
Those books reflect how the classes are taught because no matter what teachers state, they’re teaching to the test.
It is a test designed by businesses wholly dependent on the statist model of schooling. They’re not likely to bite the hand and teachers are government employees.
US history, real history the kind that teaches love of country, hasn’t been taught in half a century or more.
The grass is always greener until they’re faced with the new option. This is why I often take policy polls, and to a lesser degree candidate polls, with a grain of salt - their far too abstract - people respond differently when faced with real-life choices.
There is a health crisis! Whats wrong with these people?
( Its a mental health crisis, in the White House)
This is exactly the outcome the health care crisis people hoped to avoid by pushing the law through in a fortnight, before anyone had a chance to know what was going on.
The longer it takes to pass it, the less likely it will make it through. Probably true of everything Obama wants to do.
There's a great lesson here. The quicker he tries to do something the more dangerous it is for America and the more important it is to the success of his game plan. When he delays it means he doesn't want to do it at all, like the surge.
They will if their president gets his way.
Problem is that the 'Rats are so ideologically hell bent to pass and sign any "reform" they can think of that they don't give a darn about Rasmussen's polls nor even their political futures in some instances.
I suppose you’re right. I am gratified by what seems like an awakening.
I’m glad to see that people are finally waking up to the fact that anything this govt puts out with the word “crisis” attached to it, turns out to be nothing but lies & overspending! What I fear is that the longer these morons in office can keep greasing the palms of their special interests, there will be a better chance for them to remain in office if the majority is with them.
Come hell or high water, they all need to go in 2010 & 2012!
A year ago, a people were told they were going to get a lot of something for nothing with Obamacare.
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