We keep hearing from our friends on the Left that the U.S. health system must be rebuilt from the ground up because the public demands it. As usual, however, the facts are not on their side. The Pew Research Center has done a survey of the actual public that shows our “progressive” brethren to be full of BS:
There is less support for completely rebuilding the health care system than there was in April 1993, during the early stage of the Clinton administration’s unsuccessful effort to revamp health care.
As the following table illustrates, the percentage of the public who believe that the system needs to be completely rebuilt has dropped precipitously while the percentage favoring only minor changes has actually increased:
All of which begs the same question that comes up every time someone bothers to ask the voters about health care reform: Why does the Obama adminstration and its accomplices in Congress insist on breaking the bank to rebuild a system that the public only wants repaired?
[HT John Goodman]
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