New Rasmussen Reports polling finds 49% of U.S. voters say President Obama should delay his so-called health care reform until the economy improves.
Another 42% disagree and say Obama should go ahead, and 10% are not sure what Obama should do.
There is the usual partisan divide:
Two-thirds of Democrats (66%) say it is possible to insure everyone, a view shared by 33% of unaffiliated voters and 19% of Republicans.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of GOP voters and 60% of unaffiliateds do not believe it is possible to provide health insurance for everyone, but just 23% of Democrats agree.
According to Rasmussen, there has been a significant decline in the number who believe it is possible to provide insurance for everyone.
At a cost of another $2 trillion or more, and with a $693 billion partial down payment, Obama-care is much too much big government spending. Obama’s trillions of dollars in additional spending in his tax and borrow budget is not only more money than we can comprehend, it is much more than even Obama can honestly believe the nation is able to afford.
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One thing that I've noticed in all of this polling...
Moe Lane (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 3:29PM EST (link)…is that the Democrats are pretty much relying on two factors to claim a mandate: a lopsided identification of voters as Democrats, and strong internal agreement among Democrats that the party’s policy is correct. I can see maintaining either one; continuing to have both is going to be a real strain.
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Another appealing aspect of the current polling trends...
rbdwiggins (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 4:25PM EST (link)President Obama’s approval numbers are beginning to mirror the DOW. Which, by the way, appears to be closing at a twelve-year low. Obama’s approval numbers have fallen right along with the markets and is currently at 58%.
If my observation holds water, President Obama’s approval numbers should drop to around 55-56% by the end of the week.
Another observation: It’s taken less than six weeks for his presidency to fail.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
We can ensure all are insured
DerKrieger (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 8:10PM EST (link)…by using free market policies. I honestly believe that most people don’t have enough information to make an informed decision. If the question is “should the government ensure all Americans have health insurance” without explaining that what Obama has in mind is a complete takeover of he system why would anyone say “no”?
I think if people were fully informed there would be overwhelming opposition. That’s why I personally don’t put much stock inn polls.
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison
Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690
scarier than terror attacks
Janice Cantore Monday, March 2nd at 8:15PM EST (link)Maybe it’s because I’m retired, but the idea of government run health care scares me more than the thought of another terror attack. Yes, a terror attack would be horrible, but you clean up, you mourn and you move on. With government controlled health care the terror would be on-going in my life until the day I day. (it may even hasten that day if Dashel gets his way)
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