SurveyUSA: 77% believe it is "extremely important" or "quite important" to have a public plan competing with pvt insurance

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Fuсk you, Republitards.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport...b8-62b9d1ba8693

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It's these guys that are the problem instead of being part of the solution...

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It's these guys that are the problem instead of being part of the solution...

They will be primaried.

If they don't get the fuсk on board.

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Socialists!!

MoveOn sponsored... btw...

Nevertheless its great they publish their methodology:

The following statement conforms to the principles of disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls:

How this poll was conducted: This SurveyUSA poll was conducted by telephone in the voice of a professional announcer. Respondent households were selected at random, using Random Digit Dialed (RDD) sample provided by Survey Sampling, of Fairfield CT, unless otherwise indicated on the individual poll report. All respondents heard the questions asked identically. Within the report, you will find: the geography that was surveyed; the date(s) interviews were conducted and the news organization(s) that paid for the research. The number of respondents who answered each question and the margin of sampling error for each question are provided. Where necessary, responses were weighted according to age, gender, ethnic origin, geographical area and number of adults and number of voice telephone lines in the household, so that the sample would reflect the actual demographic proportions in the population, using most recent U.S.Census estimates. In theory, with the stated sample size, one can say with 95% certainty that the results would not vary by more than the stated margin of sampling error, in one direction or the other, had the entire universe of respondents been interviewed with complete accuracy. There are other possible sources of error in all surveys that may be more serious than theoretical calculations of sampling error. These include refusals to be interviewed, question wording and question order, weighting by demographic control data and the manner in which respondents are filtered (such as, determining who is a likely voter). It is difficult to quantify the errors that may result from these factors. Fieldwork for this survey was done by SurveyUSA of Verona, NJ.

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The largest hurdle for moving health care reform on the Hill is the Senate Finance Committee's Gang of Six, featuring three Democrats and three Republicans. This week, two of three GOP members of the group said they're prepared to vote against their own compromise. Sen. Chuck Grassley ® of Iowa acknowledged this on Monday, and Sen. Mike Enzi ® of Wyoming told Roll Call the same thing.

Sen. Mike Enzi (Wyo.), a key GOP health care negotiator, probably didn't intend to signal that Democrats and Republicans will ultimately fail to compromise on a comprehensive reform bill when Congress resumes its work after the August recess.

But in a lengthy interview conducted with Enzi this week via e-mail, the Finance Committee negotiator and ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions panel indicated his support for health care reform is predicated partly on its ability to garner the support of 75 to 80 Senators. That condition is shared by fellow Finance negotiator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the panel's ranking member.

Given the wide philosophical and political chasm dividing the two parties, the prospect of crafting a bill that can attract nearly all 60 Senate Democrats and at least 25 Republicans is doubtful -- and increasingly so.

"I hope that reports that the White House is pursuing a go-it-alone strategy are incorrect, because we need to get a bill that 75 or 80 Senators can support," Enzi said Thursday in a written response to questions posed by Roll Call.

Roll Call's arithmetic was a little off -- Enzi is looking for a bill that can attract 60 Senate Dems and at least 15 Senate Republicans -- but the point is the same. Like Grassley, Enzi is prepared to oppose his own compromise -- if the Gang of Six ever get around to finding one -- unless about half the GOP caucus supports it.

Enzi, in other words, can help craft what he thinks is a good bill, but if his caucus -- whose leadership has said it will reject a bill no matter how many concessions Democrats make -- doesn't like it, he'll reject it.

This is, of course, backwards. Enzi, like Grassley, starts with the premise that conservative opponents of reform have to like the reform bill. The substance of the bill isn't as important as support from the small, discredited Senate minority that is actively opposed to the very idea of health care reform.

It's farcical.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

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Fuсk you, Republitards.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport...b8-62b9d1ba8693

100% of republicans find it fvcking hilarious the dems own infighting on this issue is being blamed on the republicans. also 100% of republicans are salivating at the fact the dems inability to produce a bill they can agree on & the dems demonizing elderly & other voters for objecting to the 'spend more now now now, who cares what it says spend now' are fvcking themselves in 2010 & 2012.

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I wouldn't talk just yet. A public backlash against do-nothingness may yet spell a world of hurt for the business as usual politicos.

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Fuсk you, Republitards.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport...b8-62b9d1ba8693

Yeah, I saw "surveyusa" in mid city Detroit, while on a business trip, stopping people and asking questions.