States With Most Uninsured Most Likely To Believe Euthanasia, Gov't Takeover Myths

[enola fay]

Source: Huffington Post

The states that have been most skeptical of President Barack Obama's agenda for health care reform also have some of the highest levels of uninsured people in the nation.

A new study by Gallup shows that large swaths of populations in the South and West -- anywhere from one-in-five to one-in-four individuals -- are currently lacking health insurance coverage.

These same regions also have the largest percentage of populations who believe widely perpetuated mistruths about the Obama agenda, including allegations that the president will set up "death panels" and wants a complete government takeover of the health care system.

According to Gallup, of the 25 states with the greatest percentage of the uninsured, all but three are based in the South or the Midwest.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/states-with-most-uninsure_n_263988.html

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Of course. Those who need it the most always tend to be the ones who fight it the hardest. I don't know anything about the state of education in the South and Midwest but that would be my first thought (lack of education makes them more susceptible to the lies propagated by the right?). Curious to know what others think.

[Doctor_J]

1. This makes sense

Ignorance = more likely to be addicted to Hate Radio
Ignorance = more likely to be poor and therefore uninsured

Probably the biggest marvel of the fascist takeover of the last 20 years is to get the dimwits to vote for the people who detest them.

[MichiganVote]

2. I'd be skeptical of anything from this news source.

[enola fay]

3. Gallup, or Huffington Post? n/t

[MichiganVote]

4. Generally either/or. But especially Huff. they love to distort w/headlines.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Lack of proper health care leads to lower IQ

from there, it is a slippery slope to the Republican party.

[Ian David]

17. Good point. FTW. n/t

[mix]

6. Marxists have a term for this.

False consciousness.

[valerief]

7. As children the preacher tells them to believe in magic and it's perpetuated by politicians

and other charlatans.

[McCamy Taylor]

8. When I try to discuss this I get accused of bashing states. But it is true.

Places like Texas, where folks put up with abysmal working conditions and treat business owners like gods, they are the same places that are scared of health care reform. And you want to know their ugly secret? They are afraid that Black folks may find it easier to get health care. And Latinos. That is right. The "blue states" are full of rednecks who are willing to do without insurance themselves in order to ensure that people of color do not get it.

Because they are stupid ignorant fools. As a born in the south and lived here all my life Democrat, I reserve the right to call my neighbors exactly what they are. NOt all of them. Just a surprisingly large number.

[sasquatch]

9. Well the South is notorious for its food, music and stupid

Stupid is, as stupid does and the ol' confederacy is lapping every other state in the union in that category.

[iamtechus]

10. The former slave states are such an embarrassment! nt

[TygrBright]

11. This does not sound correct.

Because here in New Mexico, we have one of the nation's highest percentages of uninsured adults, and while we have our trogs and plenty of them, I don't see an awful lot of weird "death panel" crap or other wackjob manifestations.

Yes, we have plenty of yobbos fulminating about the eeeeeeevil gubmint and the horrors of socialist Obamacare, but the responses at our town halls, etc., have generally been quite mild.

Am I missing something?

This just does not ring a bell.

skeptically,
Bright

[deep1]

12. Hate to be elitists....

When you are poor, ignorant and uneducated you tend to become fearful of anything outside your boundaries. It's all fear.

[EFerrari]

13. I was about to post something similar but, I'm not sure that just as many

really vulnerable people tune out the danger as a way to cope. It's probably a wash.

[AlphaCentauri]

14. Indoctrination comes to my mind n/t

[GodlyDemocrat]

15. These are probably the same dirtbags that go to the ER and then don't pay their bills

(I'm not calling all the uninsured who go to the ERs dirtbags, just the ones who oppose universal health care.)

[truthrocks]

16. Why would they want to change anything?

FACT: Whether you walk in, are carried in, or rolled in to an ER anywhere in the US, you WILL be treated. At the very least, you will be triaged for urgency. At the very most, your life will be saved.

FACT: This is true whether you have health insurance or not, whether you believe healthcare is a "right" or not, whether you fantasize that Obama is going to kill your granny or not.

FACT: We all pay the costs for every one of these non-insured protester people, every time they require health care. They've got nothing to lose. :puke:

[daleo]

18. Wingnuts often think they are invulnerable

It is part of their "ignore the evidence" mentality. Wishful thinking.

[depakid]

19. Why is that not surprising?

And yes, it does correlate with levels of academic achievement- and also with the number of right wing hate radio stations in the region.