Majority in U.S. Say Healthcare Not Government's Responsibility

Townhall.com ^ | November 26, 2013 | Mike Shedlock

[Kaslin]

By a 56 to 42 margin, Gallup reports Majority in U.S. Say Healthcare Not Government Responsibility.

Question: Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage, or is that not the responsibility of the federal government?



No Responsibility by Political Party




Percentage Point Change Since 2000

• Since 2000, the share of republicans who say healthcare is not the responsibility has increased from 53% to 86%, a rise of 33 percentage points.
• Since 2000, the share of independents who say healthcare is not the responsibility has increased from 27% to 55%, a rise of 28 percentage points.
• Since 2000, the share of democrats who say healthcare is not the responsibility has increased from 19% to 30%, a rise of 11 percentage points.

Percentage Point Change Since 2006

• Since 2006, the share of republicans who say healthcare is not the responsibility has increased from 57% to 86%, a rise of 29 percentage points.
• Since 2006, the share of independents who say healthcare is not the responsibility has increased from 25% to 55%, a rise of 30 percentage points.
• Since 2006, the share of democrats who say healthcare is not the responsibility has increased from 10% to 30%, a rise of 20 percentage points.

In 2006, the overall share was 69% to 28% in favor of the view that healthcare was the responsibility! Now it is 56% to 46% against.

This is a startling change in sentiment in 7 years, especially among independents.

Gallp comments "It is possible that this sharp change has been caused by a politicization of the issue as it became a major part of Obama's campaign platform, and as he and other Democratic leaders pressed for and passed the ACA, sometimes called Obamacare, in 2010."

However, a close look at the timeline suggests Obamacare cannot be the blame for the bulk of the move. Between 2006 and 2009 the percentage changed from 69% to 28% in favor to 50% to 47% against. Since 2009, the sentiment change has been in the same direction (against the healthcare mandate), but the percentage point move was much smaller.

Something happened between 2006 and 2009. What was it? Housing collapse? Demographics? Boomer retirement? Medicare seen as "I got mine. I waited. You can wait too?"

The latter would require an illogical disassociation between Medicare and government sponsored healthcare.

Regardless of what happened, politically speaking, Obamacare came at a last-chance now-or-never point with public opinion split nearly 50-50.

For now, it's waiting time. The next presidential election will determine what major changes in healthcare are coming.

[Doctor 2Brains]

“Majority in US say H-Care Not the G’s Responsibility...”

In related news, a majority in the US will vote for any CS’er who explicitly runs on a promise to take over h-care and destroy it at the same time. A majority in the US are scum-sucking mega-filth monkey vomit maggots who deserve all the suffering coming their way.

[Spirochete]

Majority in U.S. Say Healthcare Not Government's Responsibility

Maybe, but the douchebags elected a democrat congress that said otherwise.

[petro45acp]

Neither is public education, public environmental protection, food and drug administration, transportation, social security, nor the arts.

National security (the military) is the only constitutionally described “public” benefit.

.02,
KYPD

[loveliberty2]

Thanks for posting!!

Now, if some enterprising conservative will just collect and publicize what must be the thousands and thousands of individual cases of Stage IV Cancer patients who, in their daily attempt to be positive, focused, and courageous in battling their disease, now have felt the heavy-handed knock-out punch in the stomach dealt to them by each Democrat who, in mass, in 2010, derided and voted AGAINST the Republican bill which anticipated and would have prevented the policy cancellations which now have spoiled those patients' Thanksgiving and Christmas Season joys with family and friends!

The Democrats' deceit and 3-year knowledge of the individual pain and suffering which was going to come to those patients should haunt those Democrat legislators as long as they live!!

Every Democrat running for office should be confronted daily, wherever they go, with facts about real human beings who are being sucker punched daily by their "follow-the-leader" mentality in voting for Obamacare and in refusing to acknowledge the rules which have now doomed their fellow citizens to a tougher fight this Holiday Season.

[unlearner]

Charitable health care has always been a facet of religious expression. Christ healed the sick. Christians cared for the sick. Missionaries usually reach out to the poor with whatever medical help they can offer. Many Christian charities and charities of other religions help the sick.

This is exactly the federal government is not supposed to be in the religion business. Governments often do a very bad job at implementing religious practices.

The left needs to quit trying to force their religion down everyone’s throat. They are not content to help the sick or poor immigrants, etc. out of their wealth; they prefer to force us all to practice their religion they we they see fit.

[SMARTY]

I don’t need the government in my school, bedroom, mail box, doctor’s office, church... etc.!

ENOUGH!!!

[basil]

Health care is most certainly NOT the government’s responsibility!

I still remember this poem we were required to memorize in 7th grade, and the last two lines says it all:

I agree that the government is not responsible for our healthcare.

Here’s a poem that we had to memorize in the 7th grade:

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

by William Ernst Henley

[basil]

Sorry about the screw ups here—had trouble getting it to cut and paste.

[vpintheak]

But yet brainless drones vote the party that loves it the most in year after year...

[frogjerk]

Correct. The secularization of hospitals in general has been an absolute disaster to western civilization.

[maddog55]

Then why did they vote for the azzhole in the first place?

[petro45acp]

Thank you. That well describes the individual responsibility of having, and for the results, of volition.

Cheers!

[fwdude]

Then why did they vote for the azzhole in the first place?

And they'd do it again. Pure racism.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article Kaslin. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

As I mentioned in a related thread, the idea of federal healthcare is not simply a matter of majority opinion. More specifically, even if the majority of citizens wanted federal healthcare, it remains that the federal government currently has no constitutional authority to address healthcare issues. In order for the feds to establish a federal healthcare program, the states would first need to amend the Constitution to delegate to Congress the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for public healthcare purposes.

[jagusafr]

- nor is it a right. Period.