A Zogby International poll shows that, when asked about specifics, likely voters hate Obamacare. Here are some highlights:
70% disapprove of a law requiring people to buy health insurance.
75% say taxes shouldn’t be raised to fund the public option.
78% favor tort reform to rein in frivolous medical lawsuits.
77% oppose taxing employer-provided health insurance benefits.
This is very bad news for the Democrats and their attempt to impose what they hilariously call “health care reform” on the country. As Jennifer Rubin puts it:
Likely voters seem to hate ObamaCare a lot more than do Americans generally (who may not even be registered to vote) … Any lawmaker whose seat is unsafe might want to mull that over.
And it gets worse. There’s another important group that is not looking forward to “reform”: physicians. An IBD/TIPP poll finds that 45% of doctors would consider quitting if Obamacare becomes law:
Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted.
Interesting that these independent polls seem to conflict with propaganda we have been getting from the White House, Congress, and most of the “news” media.
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Why would you believe a poll that gives no specifics, no methodology, no internals, comes from a very poor polling source, and is obviously biased - this is the same IBD that said that Stephen Hawking would be dead if he were British. Their polling methodology is a joke:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/ibdtipp-doctors-poll-is-not-trustworthy.html
Actual reliable polls by an unbiased source (the New England Journal of Medicine) show that 73% of doctors support the public option:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58F3VJ20090916
Why would you believe IBD, but refuse to believe the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the top medical research journals in the world?
Posted 16 Sep 2009 at 4:24 pm ¶Would that be this unbiased NEJM?
Posted 16 Sep 2009 at 4:26 pm ¶Actually I don’t know that I believe the polls in the NE Journal of Med. I believe their polls were a sku. What bugs me is what population in the physicians did they interview. Those card carring “Nazis” who will be part of the problem and line their pockets or are they actual doc’s who are working for a living and are not part of an “administrative system”?
Posted 17 Sep 2009 at 1:34 am ¶Want the hard data for compairson? Think we will ever see this information?
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