http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574434933462691154.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

……If Congress goes down this road, health insurance premiums will increase dramatically for the overwhelming majority of people. Even if Congress mandates that everyone have health insurance, many will choose to go without and pay the tax penalty. If you think people are dissatisfied with health care now, wait until they understand that Congress voted to mandate hidden premium increases and lower wages.

There are wiser and more equitable ways to ensure that every American has access to affordable health insurance. Policy experts and state policy makers have experimented with different solutions, including high risk pools and taxpayer-funded vouchers subsidized for those who are both poor and sick. Medicaid, charity care, and uncompensated care provided by hospitals cover some of these costs today.

These solutions are imperfect, but so are the reforms being proposed in Congress. Congress should be explicit about who will pay more under its plans.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform

An excerpt:

“The overall picture remains one of stability. Today’s record low support for the plan of 41% is just a point lower than the results found twice before. With the exception of a slight bounce earlier this month following the president’s nationally televised speech to Congress to promote the plan, support for it has remained in the low-to-mid 40s since early July. During that same time period, opposition has generally stayed in the low-to-mid 50s.

Intensity has been with the opposition from the beginning of the public debate. Currently, among all voters 23% Strongly Favor the legislative effort and 43% are Strongly Opposed. ”

This was a telephone poll: in the end the “media blitz” of the past weeks is another NObama failure, and thank heavens for those failures!

It would seem obvious and common sense that something requiring this much effort to ‘sell’ isn’t worth buying.

A three hour discussion on the impact to California’s already deplorable financial condition???? Nothing that makes sense should take that long to explain.

Sounds like absolute desperation to me….