[lbo-talk] OK, Nathan

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Jan 31 14:18:02 PST 2006


Doug:
> 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%

And this is in the absence of any media blitz to derail such efforts. If it were an actual proposal, the media blitz against it would probably cut that support by half.

Wojtek



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