You Never Knew What You Lost Until It’s Gone – The New Rasmussen Poll On ObamaCare

Flopping Aces ^ | 11-27-09 | Curt

[Starman417]

As the health care debate has moved forward for the last year or so the public has figured out that the current system, while far from perfect (as if there is such a thing), is way better then what Obama and company have planned:

Forty-nine percent (49%) of voters nationwide now rate the U.S. health care system as good or excellent. That marks a steady increase from 44% at the beginning of October, 35% in May and 29% a year-and-a-half ago.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 27% now say the U.S. health care system is poor.

It is interesting to note that confidence in the system has improved as the debate over health care reform has moved to center stage. The latest polling shows that only 38% favor the health care legislation currently working its way through Congress.

Confidence has improved by 20 points to be exact in the past 18 months.

62% of those polled said that cost was the biggest problem while only 18% said it was a lack of universal coverage.

The one thing about this debate is the fact that as we continue to examine the current system and compare that to the alternatives, the more we now understand just how much we have to lose...and the numbers decline because the public is coming to grips with what this Administration wants, and the costs we will all pay, as Howard Dean admitted:

You know what this is, is a giant bail-out. This is a bail-out that makes AIG look cheap. 60 billion dollars a year goes to the insurance companies under this bill. Now if we can get a public option I think that's ok. But if you don't have a public option why would we want to stick the taxpayers with another bail-out? They bailed out the banks, they bailed out AIG, this is a trillion dollar bail-out.

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It's going to take trillions, billions, well trillions over several decades from our kids.

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You are going to start gradually un-insuring people because we are not going to have the money to maintain the system that does nothing to control costs.

Meanwhile Breitbart has a video of Obama's mentor in single-payer thinking, Dr. Quentin Young:

[griswold3]

We have the best house on the block with a leaky faucet. Instead of repairing the faucet leak, they want to bring in SEIU thugs to tear down the whole house!!!

[Cacique]

btt

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“We have the best house on the block with a leaky faucet. Instead of repairing the faucet leak, they want to bring in SEIU thugs to tear down the whole house!!!”

I agree, but this is nothing new for the left, and is certainly not confined to health care. This approach applies to the whole concept of America. They don't extol the virtues of our free society and the great standard of living Americans have had, or the opportunities that exist here, or all the good we do around the world. They look for what isn't perfect, and what could be better, and they use that to paint the entire picture.

[ronnie raygun]

Intelligent idiots in control of our government

[RobinOfKingston]

Intelligent idiots in control of our government

I keep searching for descriptive terms for those who happen to be in control at the moment. I always come back to "evil."