Posted on 10/05/2009 4:38:10 AM PDT by IbJensen
Dolores Berk, right, of Philadelphia, and others protest outside a fundraiser for Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. attended by President Barack Obama at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Sept. 15. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press)
A new poll by Rasmussen Reports finds that President Barack Obama’s plan to take America’s health-care system in an even more statist direction has less support now than ever before.
According to Rasmussen’s survey results, only 41 percent of American voters want the reforms backed by Mr. Obama and his allies in Congress to be enacted. Fifty-six percent now say they want lawmakers to drop the proposal.
But when the polling firm measured intensity of feeling on both sides of the debate, matters appeared much more lopsided in favor of those who dislike the president’s plan. Forty-three percent of voters are “strongly opposed” to Mr. Obama’s favored reforms while only 23 percent of all voters are strongly supportive.
There appears to be little optimism regarding the effect American voters predict the reforms will have on the country’s health-care system. Fifty-five percent say they think the president’s ideas will worsen the system’s problems while 24 percent say they expect they will improve health-care quality and mitigate costs.
As with may other issues, health-care reform reveals an electorate more conservative among the elderly and more liberal among the young. Only 33 percent of senior citizens voiced their support for the plan, while 59 percent voiced opposition.
Elderly voters tend to support expansions of entitlements and massive new regulatory schemes with less enthusiasm than younger voters do. But this particular proposal might also lose some support due to $123 billion in proposed cuts to Medicare that would help pay for it.
Mr. Obama and congressional Democrats are losing support for their proposed expansion of government regulation and provision of health care among key constituencies. An unsurprising 79 percent of Republicans say they don’t want it enacted, but so do 72 percent of the crucial voters who do not affiliate with a political party. Also, while the plan is often billed as a major advantage for the uninsured, only 58 percent of voters without coverage support enacting it.
If only the Republicans had the gonads to vacate the Senate and let those Communists stew. That coupled with the potential resignation of the Joint Chiefs would trigger a Constitutional crisis that would cause the downfall of the Obama administration.
But it’s FREE!!!
How can people be against free stuff? /s
I'm trying to get it through my youngest's rather thick skull that "free" stuff isn't free.
So far she's skeptical, and clinging to her assertion that "popcorn at Home Depot" is free...*sigh*
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait till it’s free!
It’s quite clear that we’re winning this issue, and by all rights Obamacare should be dead in the water. What worries me, though, is knowing how dear to Obama’s heart his health care proposals are, whether he’ll try to manufacture a ‘crisis’ of some sort to try and swing public sympathy back to his side.
I wouldn’t put it past the little weasel.
Perhaps I'll be crowned King of England.
He is the absolute worst monster that America has had to deal with.
Perhaps you'll be crowned King of Whats Left of The United States.
It’s FREE.
Yes, that’s EXACTLY the argument I hear from my benchmark logic-challenged libinlaw.
Sure, it’s free, but you won’t be able to get it.
I guess, in their view, at least it isn’t some evil private insurance company that’s “controlling” whether you get treatment or not.
The idea of paying for it yourself under the present system, and that being illegal under the proposed plan (this part is vehemently denied) just doesn’t occur to them.
If she gets an allowance start taking money away from her for things that you provide to her.She’ll soon com to realize, when she has less money, that when it’s free someone has to pay for it.
Better put some ice on that, Obummer.
It is easier to give a pill to a wildcat with fingers intact than to sell Obamacare to a conservative.
The Plan is for a Senate Finance Committee vote on Tuesday 10/6, we must blitz them on Monday 10/5.
EMAIL AND CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND KEY CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS TODAY!
No Mandate! No Rationing! No “Vapor Bill!(No health-care amendments attached to other legislation) No Budget “Reconciliation”!
TO EMAIL USE THIS LINK - IT IS FREE AND EASY TO DO!
http://www.capwiz.com/freedomworks/issues/alert/?alertid=14115176
THEN call key Senators below who need to hear from you – ESPECIALLY SENATOR GRASSLEY!
USE TOLL FREE NUMBERS AND THE NUMBERS BELOW.
Capitol Toll Free: 1-800-828-0498 (Just ask for Rep or Senator office)
Capitol Toll Tree: 1-866-220-0044 (Just ask for Rep or Senator office)
Capitol Toll Free FAX: 1-800-965-4701
Bayh (IN) (202) 224-5623 (317) 554-0750
Begich (Alaska) (202) 224-3004 (907) 271-5915
Landrieu (LA) (202) 224-5824 (504) 589-2427
Pryor (AR) (202) 224-2353 (501) 324-6336
Lieberman (CT) (202) 224-4041 (860) 549-8463
Tester (MT) (202) 224-2644 (406) 728-3003
Lincoln (AR) (202) 224-4843 (501) 375-2993
Bennet (CO) (202) 224-5852 (303) 455-7600
Warner (VA) (202)-224-2023 (804) 739-0247
Webb (VA) (202) 224-4024 (804) 771-2221
Ben Nelson (NE) (202)-224-6551 (402) 391-3411
Also, contact these Senate Republicans from Finance Committee and let them know to vote against the mandate.
GRASSLEY, (IA) (202) 224-3744 (515) 288-1145
HATCH (UT) (202) 224-5251 (801) 524-4380
SNOWE (ME) (202) 224-5344 (207) 874-0883
KYL (AZ) (202) 224-4521 (602) 840-1891
BUNNING (KY) (202) 224-4343 (502) 582-5341
CRAPO (ID) (202) 224-6142 (208) 334-1776
ROBERTS (KS) (202) 224-4774 (316) 263-0416
ENSIGN (NV) (202) 224-6244 (775) 686-5770
ENZI (WY) (202) 224-3424 (307) 772-2477
CORNYN (TX) (202) 224-2934 (972) 239-1310
Senator Republican Leader Mitch McConnell at (202) 224-2541 or (502) 582-6304
Or an enema to a gorilla.
Someone broke me of using that word too widely when he'd constantly come back with "You mean 'at no extra charge'."
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