That is a lie. What is true is that for MOST individual items in the bill, a majority of the people think they sound good.
But first, it isn't ALL the items in the bill -- it's only the benefits, not the taxes, and not even all the "benefits" are polled.
Second, and maybe more importantly, each one is polled by itself -- nobody is asked if they like ALL of them.
It would be easy to make a list of 8 items, each of which gets majority support. But if you put that 8 together, it is likely that only 20% support ALL of them, and it could well be that a large majority would rather have NOTHING than those 8 things together.
For example. Suppose you have 10 people, and you are trying to make an entree for dinner for all of them. 7 choose chicken, 6 choose a white sauce, 8 choose rice, 6 choose broccolli, and 6 choose raisins.
Sounds good, right? 60% must be completely satisfied.
But then you look at this: 2 are allergic to raisins, 3 hate brocolli, 2 are vegetarians, and 2 are lactose intolerant.
And it turns out that 9 of the 10 people can't eat the entree that had NO ingredient with less than 60% approval.
Of course, in the Senate health plan they also threw in a dozen ingredients that had no support at all, and charged you a hundred bucks for it.
Charles
Great analysis
plus actually when the same people were asked if taxes should go up to pay for this they said no
but Dems can’t mention this
HE IS A DEMAGOGUE...and they lie...remember, The Bigger the Lie, the More believable.
He is mushing it all up...that is what he does....using cliches, and pretending there are only small areas that need to be resolved.
Another lie from Obama...shocked I tell you! What you said here was exactly my points...wishing someone in that room would've called him on it as such.