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Topic: Employee Benefit Research Institute Poll Findings
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AcousticGod
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From: acousticgod@sbcglobal.net
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 18, 2009 05:28 PM
 
From The 2009 Health Confidence Survey:NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN ELEMENTS RATED HIGHLY: Between 68 percent and 88 percent of Americans either strongly or somewhat support health reform ideas such as national health plans, a public plan option, guaranteed issue, expansion of Medicare and Medicaid, and employer and individual mandates. http://www.ebri.org/publications/ib/index.cfm?fa=ibDisp&content_id=4293
______________ Most Americans also support some form of a public plan option and “guaranteed issue”—the requirement that insurance companies not deny coverage to persons based on health status. More than one-half (53 percent) strongly support the availability of a public plan, while another 30 percent somewhat support it. Fourteen percent oppose the idea. Similarly, 55 percent strongly support guaranteed issue and 25 percent somewhat support it.Support also exists for expansions in eligibility for public programs. Three-quarters support either strongly (45 percent) or somewhat (30 percent) expansion of already-existing public programs to cover the uninsured. There is similar support for some form of an employer mandate, with 42 percent strongly supporting it and 33 percent somewhat supporting it. http://www.ebri.org/pdf/briefspdf/EBRI_IB_7-2009_HCS_091.pdf
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AcousticGod
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From: acousticgod@sbcglobal.net
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 19, 2009 04:00 PM
Didn't touch this one, eh, Jwhop.  I don't blame you. IP: Logged |
jwhop
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From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 19, 2009 04:33 PM
Utter and total bullshiiit acoustic."Between 68 percent and 88 percent of Americans either strongly or somewhat support health reform ideas such as national health plans, a public plan option, guaranteed issue, expansion of Medicare and Medicaid, and employer and individual mandates." A majority of Americans are against O'BomberCare. I wouldn't really expect you to know that since you have your head where it doesn't belong. "Most voters (54%) now say no health care reform legislation this year would be better than passage of the bill currently working its way through Congress."
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AcousticGod
Knowflake Posts: 1155
From: acousticgod@sbcglobal.net
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 19, 2009 04:48 PM
Didn't have anything to refute it, so you post an incongruent poll's result? The poll that I posted isn't commissioned, though it is sponsored by key players in the insurance industry itself. The results are indicative of the country's sentiment towards the "public option" as well as the idea of a number of health care reform options. This is what's real. This is the sentiment of the country. Those trying to thwart healthcare reform are in the minority. That's why even Republicans had a health care reform platform in this last Presidential election. This is also why Obama's expressed a willingness to be flexible on whatever reform does come about. He knows that by and large the population wants something done. IP: Logged |
jwhop
Knowflake Posts: 612
From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 19, 2009 11:08 PM
One thing is certain acoustic.There's no congruency between the phony statistics you posted and the Rasmussen poll...the most accurate poll of public opinion in America. IP: Logged |
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