Scrap It Or Keep It Health Care Reform Legislation
Ziggi | Mar 06, 2010 | Comments 7
There’s no need for me to exhume the history of the controversial, beleaguered, and belabored national health care reform issue. Everyone but the most isolated and disconnected of us have already made up our minds, at least for this week.
Here is this week’s public mind as reported by pollsters Rasmussen Reports.
Following a small bounce in support following his health care summit last week, President Obama has continued to try to rally House Democrats to vote for his health care overhaul. He wants the legislation approved by the Senate passed in December as a “first step” towards further improvements of the plan.
However, most U.S. voters (55%) would rather see Congress scrap the original plan and start all over again, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Still, the president has made some progress among the public. Thirty-seven percent (37%) now think it would be better to build on the health care plan that has been working its way through the House and Senate as a starting point. That’s up from 28% in February.
Democrats, by a 66% to 25% margin, support building on the current plan making its way through Congress. Republicans overwhelmingly take the opposite view, with 85% who say it would be better the scrap the current plan and start over. Unaffiliated voters, by a nearly two-to-one margin, also favor starting over.
What does this mean to you? At this point, whatever you would like it to. It is likely to change anyway, and may or may not influence any real world political solution.
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I don’t want to even think about it anymore.
I say scrap it and start over. I can’t see patching up the existing “mess” and walking away (rolling away in my case) with anything useful. The likeliness of this acting as a foundation for future refinement doesn’t hold up. Congress has never been able to refine and tweak existing legislation on the grand scale that would be needed here. If you’re looking at this as something that may be of benefit to your grandchildren then the building block concept might work. If you want to solve some today healthcare issues then no way.
Typical government. The only solution is no solution.
Start over! At this point the best we can hope for is a middle of the road compromise. Have you ever stood in the middle of the road? The only thing that goes on there is people getting run over.
Looks like we have a consensus here. Scrap it!
Don’t scrap it.
Demand that Congress and the President do something about preexisting condition exclusions,waiting periods and limitations on health insurance policies, if they do nothing else. Virtually everyone with a disability has what insurers regard as a preexisting condition, i.e., something they have seen a doctor about or taken medication for during the past year. Limiting coverage for these conditions keeps people with disabilities out of the labor force.
James raises a good point. We can just go quietly away, in which case the voting public is once again perceived as a pushover, or we can push back. At some point even elected officials can recognize endangered votes. Certainly something to think about.
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