(December 13, 2010 at 2:04 pm)Mishka Wrote: Might have been the pesky little fact that the public didn't want a public option. Now 60% of the public want the entire bill repealed. A Federal District Court in Va. just found the mandated purchase of health care to be illegal. More nails in the coffin.
Except in these polls and every other poll I've ever seen:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...02451.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20...64375.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=112818960
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009...are-option
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/1...3015.shtml
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-i...lic-option
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/...bill-.html
http://healthpolicyandreform.nejm.org/?p=1790
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/poli...rt_gr.html
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/stat...ic-option/
The only people campaigning or lobbying for HC repeal are conservatives and even they know it'll fail.
The public, on the other hand...
http://www.pollingreport.com/health.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/...able_N.htm
http://www.gallup.com/poll/126929/slim-m...ssage.aspx
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/147455.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/health...1poll.html
Support for HC reform is either good or divided, but you know what the public isn't doing? Calling for healthcare reform's repeal as a law. If anything, the public appears disappointed with the HC bill because it didn't go far enough. (Such as through a public option or single payer.)
So...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3y3QoFnqZc
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
