>The majority (65 percent) of the American people want single-payer
>health care and are willing to pay more taxes to get it.
I was going to say that all you had to do was insert the words "government-run" in place of "single-payer" and support would drop by 20 points. But I decided to look at an actual poll instead, and by god, my estimate was too low.
>AGallup:
>
>Which of the following approaches for providing health care in the
>United States would you prefer -- [ROTATED: replacing the current
>health care system with a new government run health care system,
>(or) maintaining the current system based mostly on private health
>insurance]?
>
>2005 Nov 7-10
>
>Replacing the
>current system 41%
>
>
>Maintaining the
>current system 49%
>
>No
>opinion 10%
Those aren't awful numbers, and you could certainly work with them. But don't get carried away with the inchoate populism/social democracy of the American people.
Doug