This is why the Democrats are lashing out like wounded water buffalo. Rasmussen’s latest poll shows ObamaCare dropping like a rock in public opinion. As in approaching two to one against. Worst of all for Obama’s plan, the ratio is three to one against among non-affiliated voters.
Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% are opposed to a single-payer plan.
Fifty-two percent (52%) believe such a system would lead to a lower quality of care while 13% believe care would improve. Twenty-seven percent (27%) think that the quality of care would remain about the same.
Forty-five percent (45%) also say a single-payer system would lead to higher health care costs while 24% think lower costs would result. Nineteen percent (19%) think prices would remain about the same.
There’s wide political disagreement over the single-payer issue. Sixty-two percent (62%) of Democrats favor a single-payer system, but 87% of Republicans are opposed to one. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 22% favor a single-payer approach while 63% are opposed.
This is why the Democrats are howling madly and trying desperately to shift blame away from themselves. This is why some are hiding from constituents while others are preemptively demonizing anyone who disagrees with them. If the public polls are this bad, how much worse are their internal polls?
I’d bet they are staring at electoral disaster and they know it. If they pass this monstrous plan against these kind of poll numbers, there are going to be a lot – a real lot – of unemployed Democrats in 2010.
No doubt they are planning on passing a former Democratic lawmaker stimulus plan in the near future. Just in case. They’ll need one.
The public is finally starting to wake up and realize just what they voted for when they were in their Obama golden voice induced trance – and it’s scaring the pants off of them. All of a sudden they see that all of those things he promised them were lies. He is one of the smoothest liars I have ever seen and heard. I am firmly convinced that even today he can pee all over his most ardent followers and tell them it’s a spring shower and they will dance with joy in the ‘rain’. Unfortunately for him, their were a lot of people in the middle who voted for him because he seemed like the lesser of two eveils at the time. Those people are now finding out just how evil he truly is and they are decidedly not happy. Lots of ‘buyer’s remorse’ floating around these days!
None of the plans being negotiated in Congress are single-payer. You can hypothesize that the inclusion of a public option would eventually lead to a de facto single-payer system (which I would disagree with), but the fact is that this poll doesn’t reflect how Americans feel about the actual proposals. I strongly support what Obama is trying to do, but you could still count me among the 57% opposed to a single-payer plan, since I don’t think that would be the right course of action. Luckily, nobody’s proposed it.
Newer post:
http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/08/11/get-tough/
I am well aware of what this poll said. It has always been my position that the pending schemes are a shell game to usher in single payer. Read more than one post here linked in a drive-by and you’ll see that.