It is true that dragging out the healthcare reform debate when most Americans have health insurance is a tenuous situtation and doing so against the backdrop of falling jobs is riskier yet but a large part of Obama's falling popularity is continuing Bush's TARP program to give trillions to financial institutions that helped cause this nations's financial collapse and also continuing the unpopular war in Afghanistan but we only need look at the specifics in the healthcare reform polls to get a grip on reality.
Scroll down through these various polls to see the specifics that reveal the truth on what the public thinks about healthcare reform -
http://www.pollingreport.com/health.htm
Even though it will disappoint the Republicans and the "conservative" tax protestors sorely, the American public clearly supports the government completely running a healthcare program called the Public Option. Every poll that is taken so far has supported this aspect of the overall healthcare program, so to the rightwing giddy about Massachusetts put that in your pipe and smoke it or in other words cool it, you ain't goin nowhere.
The public supported the healthcare bill when it included the Public Option and only when talk of removing it surfaced did the public begin it's descent from favoring the bill and now with the Public Option clearly out of the bill have the numbers risen in clear opposition to the bill. This above all things is such a clear demonstration how members of congress are bought off by the health insurance industry, the Republicans completely and the Democrats sadly two too many. The American public clearly favors a Public Option to compete with the health insurance industry but our Congress, the representatives of that American people, do not have enough of it's members willing to deny the health insurance industry's money and vote for it and the Supreme Courts decision today to allow even more corporate money influence in elections in the face of all we now know is unbelievable and one of the most unwise the court has ever made but thats another story, yea. Think the voters are angry now? Corporations like the health insurance industry get more power as Americans still do not have their health care reform..whew!
Another point for the right wing to consider is, albeit neither party is aglow with the public on this, that when polled about who is handling healthcare better, the Democrats or Republicans, the Democrats come out on top so it's not like the public wants anything even close to the Republicans flat out ideological opposition to the healthcare bill.
The polls say the the public wants the healthcare bill to put tougher regulations on the health insurance industry not weaker regulations. The Republicans of course want weaker or no regulations at all and want nothing to do with a Public Option so they are out of it, period. This healthcare bill is not being rejected in the polls because it is too regulatory or government oriented, it is being rejected because it is not "liberal" enough on key issues.
As for Massachusetts, it has a healthcare program very similiar to the healthcare program being proposed in Congress and the Massachusetts people strongly support that healthcare program so the vote there is not related to a vote against that type of healthcare. It is a vote against the intrenced politics of that state or a vote for change intrastate. And thats not Democrat analysis, thats the words of the Republican candidate himself.
When you break down the polls and look at what is inside you see the real picture. And when the people begin getting fed up with the Democrats bumbling around there is only one other way to send a message in our two party system; vote in a Republican to raise some eyebrows.
Better start looking around, Better start listening....to the voters!
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