Gallup health care poll: Americans put faith in insurance companies over GOP

[cal04]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/17/gallup-health-insurance/
Today, House Republicans offered a substance-less alternative to the Democrats’ health care plan. The GOP “plan” comes on the same day that Gallup releases new numbers showing the GOP ranks last when it comes to who the public thinks would get health care reform right. Only 34% of Americans are confident that Republicans in Congress will make the correct decisions, which is less than the insurance companies (35%) and the pharmaceutical companies (40%). The public’s faith in President Obama comes in at 58%, while confidence in Democratic leaders in Congress is at 42%:

[Pirate Smile]

1. Ha. K & R.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Obama rates pretty high there.

[kysrsoze]

3. Then they're still idiots. Why trust either one?

Neither is looking out for them, nor are Big Pharma and many Dem Congress critters either.

[otohara]

4. Finally It's Sinking In - The GOP Doesn't Give A Shit

about health care for every American, and they get way too much money from anti-reform-activists.

The people who continually voted against their interests, are waking up.

[rucky]

5. I think I'd rank hospitals first

but the rest of the list seems about right.

[ingac70]

7. Ugh. Like HCA?

For profit hospitals give two shits about patient care. No different than insurance companies.

[rucky]

11. as are for-profit doctors

maybe Nurses should've been a category

[ingac70]

14. As far as I know...

most nurses get a paycheck as an employee and haven't been caught defrauding Medicare and Medicaid, so maybe Nurse Practitioners need a category, but not nurses in general.

[AndyTiedye]

9. A Lot of Hospitals Are Owned by Private Companies Now

Are you sure you want to rank them first?

[patriotvoice]

12. Bob Kelso thanks you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kelso

[KansDem]

6. BWAHAHAHA!!! Even GOP and insurance companies combined is not as high as doctors...

You think Americans are trying to tell them something? Like, maybe let's trust our doctors more than twice as much as GOPers and insurance companies combined.

So the next time my doctor orders a test, makes a diagnosis, and prescribes a medicine, I don't want some fucking insurance company "bureaucrat" requesting the same test over again, in essence second-guessing my doctor, before the insurance company pays the cost...*
________
*True story...

[GreenTea]

8. What the fuck are they talking about republicans & insurance corporations are one in the same - to

fight ANY public option for health care so insurance companies can make billions off our taxes, throwing sick people of policies and profiting off the desperate & sick of this country, with no competition, using collusion & exclusionary tactics for high risk no profit patients...

The republicans and the insurance corporations have privatized our health care system and we want it back, a public option and republicans are screaming & lying against it for their insurance companies cronies... profits for these corporations would go down if our taxes went instead to our own health care...Like Social Security the republicans despise public option, trash it and make up lies and stories to try and destroy it.

[bvar22]

10. Add in most of the Senate Democrats,

and I will agree.

[underpants]

13. I am just sure a whole bunch of obstruction and lying will move them up

:sarcasm:

Hey Guess WHAT!!!

McCain and Gregg did just that, lie and obstruct, today!!!

Republicans try to obstruct health care bill.

Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee began marking up Sen. Ted Kennedy’s (D-MA) Affordable Health Care Act. Republicans, who pushed for the incomplete HELP legislation to be studied by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and then pretended that the agency scored the entire bill, tried to obstruct the effort by complaining that the CBO had not yet scored the full proposal. During the hearing, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) argued that the hearing be postponed until a full cost-analysis is available. Watch it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saHBvOlHok4
The GOP then maneuvered to introduce a host of amendments simply as a delaying tactic. Rather than offering constructive improvements that could lower costs and expand coverage, a good number of the GOP’s proposed amendments do nothing to solve the health care crisis. The Wonk Room has the run-down.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/17/republicans-try-to-obstruct-health-care-bill/

[Johonny]

15. sounds like the Republicans need to be paying the

insurance companies and not the other way around