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When conservatives start trumpeting the "Most Americans want the ACA overturned" polls... (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2012 OP
What they are missing is Pab Sungenis Mar 2012 #1
Reply that "Most Americans want Single Payer". Vincardog Mar 2012 #2
BINGO! rurallib Mar 2012 #3
A good reply, but arm yourself when pointing this out. Lasher Mar 2012 #5
Not to mention, no study says the majority want it overturned karynnj Mar 2012 #4
Yes. emulatorloo Mar 2012 #8
Ask the GOP a-hole when they are going to introduce bills to make marijuana legal anti-alec Mar 2012 #6
Most Americans are against Death Panels and unplugging grandma (tm) emulatorloo Mar 2012 #7
 

Pab Sungenis

(9,612 posts)
1. What they are missing is
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 04:21 PM
Mar 2012

that most of us who oppose the law oppose it because it doesn't go far enough. We're not going to stand for a return to the wild west system that was there before (and to too much of a degree is still there today).

Lasher

(27,597 posts)
5. A good reply, but arm yourself when pointing this out.
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 04:44 PM
Mar 2012

Wikipedia sums it up nicely:

According to the media criticism organization Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a 1987 New York Times/CBS poll showed 78% of people saying that the "government should guarantee medical care to everyone." Between 2003 and 2009, 17 opinion polls showed a majority of the public supports various levels of government involvement in health care in the United States. Many polls, such as ones administered through CNN, AP-Yahoo, New York Times/CBS News Poll, and Washington Post/ABC News Poll, Kaiser Family Foundation showed a majority in favor of a form of national health insurance, often compared to Medicare. The Civil Society Institute and Physicians for a National Health Program have both found majorities in favor of the government offering guaranteed insurance, and a Quinnipiac poll in three states in 2008 found majority support for the government ensuring "that everyone in the United States has adequate health-care" among likely Democratic primary voters.

In contrast, a October 2011 Rasmussen Reports poll showed only 35% of respondents in favor of single-payer health care, with a plurality (49%) opposed. Politifact rated a statement by Michael Moore "false" when he stated that &quot t)he majority actually want single-payer health care." Responses on these polls largely depend on the wording. For example, people respond more favorably when they are asked if they want a system "like Medicare," less favorably when stated as "socialized."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_health_care#Public_opinion_in_the_United_States

PolitiFact has again shown that they have an agenda when it comes to health insurance. And it should come as no surprise when Rasmussen sings the same tune.
 

anti-alec

(420 posts)
6. Ask the GOP a-hole when they are going to introduce bills to make marijuana legal
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 04:48 PM
Mar 2012

After all, 70% of all Americans support marijuana.

It is a true cash crop, and it will create many jobs.

emulatorloo

(44,130 posts)
7. Most Americans are against Death Panels and unplugging grandma (tm)
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 06:39 PM
Mar 2012

But when you tell them what is actually in the law they like.

The better polls cut through the Republican disinformation and ask about what's actually in it

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