Americans willing to fund healthcare reform: poll

[UpInArms]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans would pay higher taxes to fund healthcare reforms that provide the best quality of care, but only a minority expects Washington to deliver it, according to a survey released on Wednesday.

The telephone survey of 3,003 U.S. adults conducted by Thomson Reuters found 63 percent willing to pay for healthcare reform, though most also said they are happy with their own doctors, insurance plans and out-of-pocket costs.

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"But underlying this is a fairly strong belief that people are entitled to the best healthcare," Perkins added. "This is a value statement: that people are entitled not just to good but to the best healthcare. And people are willing to pay for it."

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The survey period also followed a summer of rancorous debate in Washington and angry exchanges between healthcare reform advocates and adversaries at political town hall meetings across the country.

The survey showed that 76 percent of those polled believe Americans deserve the best healthcare. But only 43 percent said they actually receive it.

Readiness to pay for effective reform crossed party lines, with 78 percent of Democrats willing to accept higher taxes, as well as 64 percent of independents and 48 percent of Republicans.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-HealthcareReform/idUSTRE58T0MY20090930

[LTR]

1. After all...

What would you rather have - a pointless war in Iraq that six years later has meant diddly-squat, or decent health care that helps many and costs only half as much?

This is one thing the right-wing will never admit.

[LynnTheDem]

2. Now imgaine if the US "media" called out the BULLSHIT LIES spewed by the rightwing.

If the majority of Americans knew the FACTS about things such as the Canadian healthcare system, Americans would be tarring & feathering every rightwinger in the country.

That so many Americans can truly believe they are "exceptional" and live in the "we're #1!" nation on the planet, when they don't even have universal healthcare....

It sure shows the Goering & Goebels effect; lie big, lie often, lie loud.

WAKE UP, Americans. Republicans are pro-corporations, NOT pro-Americans.

[Steerpike]

3. That's funny...

I just heard some republican thug on the radio say it could not possibly be popular. 5 democrats voted against it in committee officially stalling it's progress. The rethug chortled, "How could it be popular if it can't even get out of committee"?

I laughed so hard I almost cried

[AlbertCat]

8. "How could it be popular if it can't even get out of committee"?

Washington, DC is another planet, in a galaxy far far away.... a long time ago....




No seriously! It is! Our reps have no idea what is going on in America. None. Right or left.

[aggiesal]

4. I would much rather give ...

half my health insurance premium to the gov't to get 100% coverage.

Right now we pay about $400/month for family coverage of 80%.

This only makes the insurance companies $400 richer each month,
because we hardly ever use the policy. I'm afraid that when we need
it, we will be declined because of some excuse that the ins. company
will manufacture.

Time for a strong public option now!!!

[Stumbler]

5. No shit, Sherlock

The majority of non-fringe, non-fanatical Americans realize this. Unfortunately, I doubt this poll will make it onto the "librul" media
* edit: misspelled sherlock

[Deep13]

6. An NPR-commissioned poll on the radio today...

...found an overwhelming majority of Americans think Congress does not care about them and only cares about powerful lobbyists like insurance companies.

[Quantess]

15. We don't just think so. We know so.

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[AlbertCat]

9. Isn't Mikey Moore commenting on health issues kind of like Marion Barry commenting on drug related

No.








Oh I get it! He's fat!!!! And only healthy people should tell us about health care.




Isn't AWOL George W. Bush being Commander in Chief like John Ensign commenting on Family Values?

I wouldn't start this game if I were you.

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[KansDem]

25. Bush wasn't "Commander in Chief" when he was in the White House...

Unless you believe a Commander in Chief should sit on his ass and do nothing when America is attacked...



Hey, BlindMute, what do you think he was thinking when this photo was taken?

[deutsey]

27. +1

:thumbsup:

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[ShortnFiery]

12. Lord, talk about low lying fruit. Michael Moore is an American Treasure.

I love the fact that with him WYSIWYG. I see beyond his physical features into a very "beautiful soul."

Michael Moore :patriot: :yourock:

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[ShortnFiery]

14. Classy. You know, watch out about disrespecting overweight people,

some day you just may "fill" their rainks? :evilgrin: I'm sure you don't have any vices so that's why you're free to throw stones?

[Auggie]

16. How do you know it's not a medical condition?

And what do you like on your pizza? Because I think one is coming your way.

[Kermitt Gribble]

21. Why don't you discuss

his work rather than insult him? Maybe you don't have the mental capacity to do such things, or, maybe you can't refute any of the facts in his documentaries? My guess is it's both...

[daleanime]

19. Hummnn, BlindMute?

Fits you very well:evilgrin:

[AllyCat]

17. Drop my stupid insurance premium and pay it in tax so that everyone is covered?

Sure!!! I have NO PROBLEM paying a tax to get Medicare. None. Pay for others who can't afford anything. sure. Pay for kids out of the womb? Sure. Pay for black people? Sure. Pay for the poor? Sure.

I'm so sick of the reich-wingers saying "we don't want to pay for others". It is unethical, un-Christian, racist, classist, and UNSAFE for the rest of us. Not only that, it costs the REST of us money and you'd think at least THEY would appreciate that.

[Kermitt Gribble]

18. I don't know of any other issue that has exposed the corruption

of our elected officials to the extent that health care reform has. It can't be more obvious, and the corruption is on both sides of the isle.

[damntexdem]

20. Hey, Baucus, here's your 60 percent!

Oh, I see: you won't pay attention as long as a mere 48% MINORITY of Republicans are in favor. ;-)

[Auggie]

22. I'd pay for it

[msmart2]

23. Congressional accountablility

I was talking to a friend of mine one day about how congress is seemingly ignoring the will of the people. He said the middle class can no longer afford to wait for congress to do the right thing. We both agreed that there is corruption on both sides of the isle. Both of us had contributed to the democratic party, written letters, called our congressmen and tried the established methods of oversight. My friend came up with an idea. He said by executing a tax boycott, the middle class could take back the country. “Why should the middle continue to support a country whose leaders are obviously not representing them?” he asked. I said that would get a lot of people into trouble. “Not really.” he said “if people took a day off from work without pay, they would owe no taxes for that day”. “And if enough people took the day off and spent little or no money at the malls that would definitely send shock waves though the economy”. If the work and spending stoppage was broad enough, the treasury’s loss of revenue would definitely get the attention of our nation’s leaders.
I said I thought something like that might be harmful to our nation. He said large corporations have been moving our jobs overseas for years. And instead of congress taking steps to stop it they have given these fat cats incentives to do so. “With friends like that, the enemy isn’t looking so bad” he said.

I said something like that would require a lot of coordination. He said progressive organizations like MoveOn could communicate with each other to spread the word to their members. I asked how people would be able to fend off employer retribution. He said members could report such retribution to their organization, which would then be relayed to other organizations. These organizations could notify their members to boycott the offending corporation and its affiliates and subsidiaries.

I’ve been thinking about this. I’m not sure it will work. Not because of logistics, but because I don’t think the American people have the backbone to do what it takes to bring about real change. Who’s right - me or my friend?

[DFW]

24. Hmmm, sounds like Frank Luntz missed this one.

He's no idiot. He knows the real score, but he's paid to report a different one.

No wonder Fox likes him so much.

If Luntz were doing Fox Sports, he'd find a way for the Detroit Tigers to be ten games ahead of the Yankees.

[vinylsolution]

26. We're already paying more than enough....

.... to fund universal healthcare. But most of our tax dollars are being skimmed off by the Pentagon.

Although Mr Obama has canceled two of the war machine's biggest pork projects recently, so we can still hope....

[deutsey]

28. Thair comminists!1!!!11

:eyes:

[lumberjack_jeff]

29. We already pay enough to get the best x2 n/t