Here's the results of the September poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation (http://www.kff.org/), considered to be the "gold standard" of non-partisan health care polling.

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what most Americans think about healthcare. There are way too many moving parts, and what will eventually happen will be less draconian to the market than what the Sunday morning cable pundits say. At the end of the day, we will have a watered down bill. So with that, buy some stock in the large health insurance companies. They've been whacked beyond rationale, and once the noise and bullshit subsides, they will go up.

Did you read this before you posted??

Everyone thinks reform is necessary, including REPUBLICANS!! The difference is the Dems want the single payer option. Did you see the numbers for single payer in that document, they are in the toilet!!!

When the Dems are ready to stand up to the trial lawyers and fight for tort reform, THEN I will know they are serious. Until then, looks like they just want another government program they can use to benefit themselves.

This seemed fairly accurate and the results are what I expected. Quite a useful website actually.

There are shortcomings of the poll though. It wasn’t specific enough in it’s questions, understandable given that there is not yet 100% certain specifics due to so many existing bills. But there is a very very high probability that the increased costs to those presently insured will go higher than the survey specified (which was not quantitatively specified at all). The poll simply ascertained that people were willing to pay more but it didn’t specify how much more. The acceptance of single payer was low as expected and the acceptance of the “government option” was split. There also was no provision in the poll for a response to the possibility that people would lose their employer based coverage as they were shifted to the government plan.

Almost everybody wants reform. Almost everybody wants to insure the uninsured (which by the way the proposed plans leave millions still uncovered). Almost everyone wants to take measures to control the high inflation rate of medical care costs.

Of course I read it before I posted it... but like most of your posts, you cherry pick the items that bolster your own opinions and ignore the ones that don't.  Yes, the numbers for siingle-payer is low; but single payer is pretty much been abandoned anyway.

However, the numbers in favor of a public option are close to 70%... funny you failed to mention that.

Here's a radical thought... why not let your opinions be inflluenced by the facts rather than trying to bend the facts to support your opinions?

How about Obama grow a pair and actually take on the lawyers and TORT reform!! Until then, all he wants is more government power.

And Single payer is not dead, they are trying to revive it...