Posted on 02/27/2012 5:13:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
While the political debate continues over mandated free contraception for women, most voters now oppose the idea of free health care for all Americans. Opposition is even higher if voters are required to change their current insurance coverage to a government plan to make that free health care possible.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 39% of Likely U.S. Voters believe health care should be made available free to all Americans. Fifty-one percent (51%) disagree and oppose universal free care. Eleven percent (11%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on February 20-21, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Are the Europeans gonna pay for it?
There’s no such thing as free anything, stupid a$s americans.
Health care insurance is a good idea.
That’s why we buy it.
The supply of any free thing is not.
That same 39 percent number keeps turning up. Obama's welfare army???
There’s your solid welfare/Democrat vote right there.
This poll is flawed. “free healthcare” really? It’s NOT free and never will be “free”, someone will pay for it. The money does not grow on trees. Whoever created this poll question is either economically challenged, or is deliberately trying to skew the poll.
The hell with just free health care...!!!
... from the 50% who pay no federal income tax
Studies show that 39% of Americans are complete idiots.
Quit your job, quit paying rent, quit worrying about feeding your family.
Big Daddy gobment...will provide all.
Yo no wat i b saying?
Wow! Imagine those doctors, nurses, hospitals, technicians, administrators, everyone else working in the medical field...all doing it for NOTHING! How humane, how...wut?
Oh, you mean somebody pays for it? Who?
Every American deserves free government -— it’s an idea whose time has come.
To take that to its logical conclusion, that will include medical/pharmaceutical research. So even though they have waiting lists for essential treatments/surgeries, European universal health care has benefited from US’s cutting edge research. When we go to it, bye bye innovation.
Thinking health care would be “free” is a ridiculous as Democrats thinking that corporations would be paying the higher taxes they want to heap on businesses. The consumer, of course, and the taxpayer, pays for free health care and corporate taxes.
Taken to a logical conclusion, everything is health care.
Very disappointing poll result.
I think Berkshire Hathaway should pay for it.
As an ex-canadian, I find it laughable when “Amerikans” who claim they want to move to Canada is the “free healthcare”.
I have to explain slowly to these morons that each province in canada charges a monthly premium that you HAVE TO PAY or else...
It is mandatory. You can’t pay? FU. The govt dings your credit report and goes into your bank account and garnishes it. That’s what Americans are facing with Obamacare..
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