America Hating Radical Rightist Fascist Goose Steppers Go Ballistic As Poll Bankrolled By Foes Of Health Care Reform Finds Overwhelming Support For Public Plan
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Poll Bankrolled By Foes Of Health Care Reform Finds Overwhelming Support For
Public Plan
If this one doesn?t stiffen the spines of Dems who are wavering on whether to
include a public health insurance option in the reform package, nothing will.
A new poll by a nonpartisan, D.C.-based research group finds truly overwhelming
support for the public option. The kicker: The poll was bankrolled partly by
previous opponents of health care reform, including one of the nation?s best-
known insurance companies.
The poll ? which was just released by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a
D.C. policy think tank ? finds that a majority (53%) strongly back the
availability of a public plan, while another 30% ?somewhat? support it. That?s a
total of 83% in favor of a public plan ? a staggeringly large majority.
Even more interesting, guess who paid for the poll? From the release:
This survey was made possible with support from AARP, American Express, Blue
Cross Blue Shield Association, Buck Consultants, Chevron, Deere & Company, IBM,
Mercer, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Principal Financial
Group, Schering-Plough Corp., Shell Oil Company, The Commonwealth Fund, and
Towers Perrin.
Not exactly a band of raging lefties. The American Association of Retired
Persons and Blue Cross Blue Shield were among the opponents of HillaryCare in
the 1990s.
While the news in this poll is not uniformly good for Obama?s plan by any means,
the public plan is the main focus of debate right now, and on this, the poll is
unequivocal. What?s more, it?s backed up by the new NBC/Wall Street Journal
poll, which finds that three in four think the public option is important.
News of this new poll comes as Tom Daschle, who was almost Obama?s point man on
health care reform, is out there suggesting that the White House may have to
drop the public option to get reform passed with bipartisan consensus.