Health Care BS

With Congress, the “news” media, and elite opinion on his side, the President has been unable to convince the public that the Democrat vision of health care reform will improve the current system very much. Americans are particularly doubtful that Obamacare will help them personally.

Here’s how respondents recently answered when Gallup’s pollsters asked the following question: “If a new health care bill becomes law, do you think in the long run it will make your own health care situation better, would it not make much difference, or make it worse than it is now?”

Americans aren’t much more sanguine about “reform’s” effect on the system as a whole: “Forty-one percent say a new healthcare bill would make the U.S. healthcare system better in the long run, while 40% say it would make things worse.” And 14% say that it won’t make much difference.

This is devastating. Obama and his congressional accomplices have every advantage on this issue, but they can’t make it happen. The narrowness of their victory last weekend only highlighted the problem, and you can hear the despair seeping into the voices of Obama’s supporters:

I also believe that its failure would cripple Americans’ confidence in their Congress to address any profound problem. And that would be a death-blow to constructive government and civil politics for a very long time to come.

It isn’t true, however, that the failure of Obamacare would cause Americans to lose confidence “in their Congress.” It would mean that they have already lost confidence in the Democrat-controlled Congress and the President.  That means the electorate is more alert that some of us had feared.

UPDATE:

Maybe this is why fewer and fewer Americans believe the whoppers Obama and his accomplices keep telling them about “reform.”

[HT Hot Air]