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1 posted on 07/14/2002 2:32:01 AM PDT by sarcasm
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To: Brownie74; FITZ
ping
2 posted on 07/14/2002 2:33:23 AM PDT by sarcasm
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To: sarcasm
Hispanics, 64 percent of whom supported a national health-care plan, reported the greatest amount of difficulties with health-care issues. The problems included paying bills, getting services, securing health insurance, getting prescriptions filled and general dissatisfaction with the quality of health-care service.

And of course, the government will solve all these problems.

And when "hillary care" is finally passed, the supply of medical services will automatically increase to fill the demands of illegal aliens.

The relentless, unending march to socialism, (which will destroy America), continues.

3 posted on 07/14/2002 2:53:15 AM PDT by Tripleplay
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The respondents of this poll need to check the status of TennCare and see what HillaryLite has done to the state's budget...
4 posted on 07/14/2002 2:58:27 AM PDT by backhoe
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it surveyed 1,007 Texas adults in a random telephone sample

IMO the sampling method is flawed and the data reported is incomplete. It appears that this was limited to households that are unable to afford call screening equipment, thus skewing the sample toward a lower socio-economic demographic.

The specific questions asked was not given. The results suggest some sort of push poll.

It doesn't state what language the poll was given.
It doesn't state the citizenship status of those polled.

I'd like to see a breakdown along these lines also.

Until proven that a poll reflects the opinions of legal, tax paying, achievers, I'll reject it out of hand as liberal agitprop.

This does not represent the majority opinion of most Texans I know.

8 posted on 07/14/2002 3:21:02 AM PDT by Freebird Forever
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If ytis from the Chronical, I would take it with a grain of salt.
10 posted on 07/14/2002 3:41:00 AM PDT by Bommer
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Strong majorities said they favored requiring businesses to offer private insurance for their employees; income tax deductions, tax credits or financial assistance to help uninsured Americans purchase private insurance; expanding programs such as Medicaid and CHIP; and expanding neighborhood clinics.

The focus on insurance is all wrong but not surprising. As long as the medical community (i.e. doctors) can tightly restrict the number of med school students and med schools for that matter we will continue to have a small body of overpaid doctors. The med schools intentionally stack the rosters with foreign students knowing that many will leave the US and not dilute the field.
Break that stranglehold and the free enterprise system will fix the crisis very quickly.

11 posted on 07/14/2002 3:51:18 AM PDT by doosee
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In results poll takers attributed to the state's growing Hispanic population, 52 percent of Texans favor such a plan (gov't run health insurace). Only 40 percent of people nationally favor such a plan.

The Constitution is to protect us against such 'legal blunder'. If there is no protection, then we will have the legal citizens not being able to afford insurance, yet paying for insurance for illegal aliens.

This sounds like economic slavery to me.

12 posted on 07/14/2002 4:20:22 AM PDT by CWRWinger
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a majority of Texans favor a publicly funded national health-care plan

Texans, huh? Reminds me of a couple of quotes by a heroic character in a movie I like

"I never met a Texan I couldn't shade."

If I ever meet a Texan who hasn't drunk water from a hoofprint I think I'll shake his hand or buy him a Daniel Webster ceegar."

13 posted on 07/14/2002 6:21:51 AM PDT by RJCogburn
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52 percent of Texans favor such a plan.

In a way this doesn't suprise me. To many times I have heard people say "Well if they can get it why can't I"?

The purpose of the welfare state was to create a dependency on government thus enslavement. It seem to be working pretty well!!

14 posted on 07/14/2002 6:22:25 AM PDT by Brownie74
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It's official, our country is doomed.
16 posted on 07/14/2002 6:28:49 AM PDT by oldvike
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GAG!

RETCH!

PUKE!

DRY HEAVE!

The Houston Chronicle is a komunist rag, unfit to line the bottom of a bird cage.

Socialism is the sacrament of the brain-dead.

17 posted on 07/14/2002 6:32:39 AM PDT by LibKill
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Polls? Majority?
Sounds like "Promote Democracy" instead of support a republican form of government.
The majority have spoken so initiate legislation.
18 posted on 07/14/2002 6:32:50 AM PDT by philman_36
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Ignore this stupid thing. Polls are worthless.

If you have not read "Mobocracy" by Matt Robinson, do yourself a favor and do so.

He pretty much blows away any rationale for paying attention to or relying upon polls, especially of this kind.

In the present case, I suspect you'll find they are polling people who have essentially NO IDEA of any of the ramifications or consequences to their answers. They simply respond to the pollster's questions, which without knowing exactly what they were, and how they were framed, makes them worthless for analysis.

Robinson showed how you can do two polls at the same time on exactly the same issue, with the same sample-size, and get DIAMETRICALLY opposite results.

Again, this is just bullsh*t, another lame attempt by the press at "journalism," which they no longer know how to do.

31 posted on 07/14/2002 1:26:12 PM PDT by Illbay
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