National health care may never happen

CNN ^ | 7/7/09 | Geoff Colvin,

[Nachum]

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- The latest polling looks great for President Obama: It shows that Americans love national health care. If history and polling trends are any guide, however, that will change. Voters right now are in what the famous pollster Daniel Yankelovich called the Wishful Thinking stage -- a moment in the life of an opinion analogous to the dreamy early days of a relationship. Yankelovich believed opinion evolved through seven stages: Dawning Awareness, Greater Urgency, Reaching for Solutions, Wishful Thinking, Weighing the Choices, Taking a Stand, and Making a Responsible Judgment. In the next few weeks, when voters discover what national health care will cost and how it would affect their own care, romance will give way to reality.

[Nachum]

Click your heels together three times and repeat after me:

There is no place for Obamacare, there is no place for Obamacare, there is no place for Obamacare...

[NEMDF]

WOO HOO... got carried away by the headline. Hope it comes true.

[Brett66]

We’re in stage one of Obama’s presidency.......

[HiTech RedNeck]

Obama’s self assigned task is to rush from wishful thinking to decisive action. Forget about responsibility, except as a buzzword used as a ruse.

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, and my check for the $10 gazillion dollar winning lottery ticket is in the mail.

This nation is headed into full blow communism.  The Republicans are helping it happen, day after day.

If we couldn't stop the stimulas fiasco, what makes anyone think we can stop nationalized healthcare.

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[randog]

Unfortunately we have a government that goes directly from Wishful Thinking to law.

[mockingbyrd]

from your lips to God’s ears.....

[SERKIT]

Dawning Awareness, Greater Urgency, Reaching for Solutions, Wishful Thinking, Weighing the Choices, Taking a Stand, and Making a Responsible Judgment

Obviously these steps were not followed during the Democrat Primaries by the great unwashed, not followed by about 54% of the American people, and certainly not followed by the Drive-By Media (now known as State Run Media) in the run up to the Immaculation of The One....especially the Dawning Awareness stage. The vetting process was more like the Yawning Fawning Stage.

[edcoil]

That does not mean your taxes will be increased to pay for it.

[Libertarian444]

It shows that Americans the media love national health care.

Fixed.

[aShepard]

Unfortunately, Yankelvitch doesn’t always work.

Think of algore’s global warming fraud foisted upon the world, as the believers all nodded their heads in unison about the supposed evil, carbon.

[oblomov]

Make that “may” in the title a “shall”, and I will be a happy man.

[M-cubed]

Obama’s self assigned task is to rush from wishful thinking to decisive action <<

Yup!.......seems to be his MO.....get bills passed before anyone can read or reflect on the result...

1. Porkulus
2. Cap and Trade
3. ObamaCare........ (Sotomayer will be the next big rush job

[easttennesseejohn]

Look, the dems were willing to get obamacare passed through reconcillation, by-passing filibuster rules. Now with Smalley in tow they have their 60 needed to cut off debate. I know Kennedy and Byrd aren’t there, but there are at least 2 rinos willing to jump ship for this. After all the smoke has cleared, get ready for the new dawn in healthcare. The real task will be trying to roll all this crap back.

[paul51]

Yankelovich believed opinion evolved through seven stages: Dawning Awareness, Greater Urgency, Reaching for Solutions, Wishful Thinking, Weighing the Choices, Taking a Stand, and Making a Responsible Judgment

The dems have learned to rush through a bill after the 'greater urgency' stage and before the others stages kick in.

[easttennesseejohn]

Look, the dems were willing to get obamacare passed through reconcillation, by-passing filibuster rules. Now with Smalley in tow they have their 60 needed to cut off debate. I know Kennedy and Byrd aren’t there, but there are at least 2 rinos willing to jump ship for this. After all the smoke has cleared, get ready for the new dawn in healthcare. The real task will be trying to roll all this crap back.

[richace]

No, no it’s actually called The Five Stages of A Project and they are: 1) Wild enthusiasm 2) Hopeless despair 3) Search for the guilty 4) Blame of the innocent 5) Praise and honors for non-participants. We are nearing the end of Stage 1 of Barry’s project.

[Buckeye McFrog]

it’s bridging the gap between a free lunch and picking up the tab at Ruths Chris

[TheBattman]

It shows that Americans love national health care.

And exactly who did they poll? The only people I know that are in favor are those who already are leeches on the taxpayers' backs...

[socialismisinsidious]

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