Americans support a public option

A New York Times/CBS News poll shows overwhelming support for a public option - 72 percent of all those polled were in favor, with 20 percent opposed and 7 percent clueless.
Half of Republicans were in favor (39 percent opposed).
87 percent of Dems were in favor! (9 percent opposed).
73 percent of Independents were in favor (22 percent opposed).

And yet Senate Dems are not on board.

What is wrong with this picture?

Contact your senators! Here's an Howard Dean petition - there are others as well.

Public Option Good Politics

Robert Creamer has an article at Huffington Post on Four Reasons Why Giving Consumers Is Great Politics.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
He cites the popularity of such a program:

In a poll taken earlier this year by Lake Research, 73% of respondents favored a health plan that gives them the choice between a private plan or a public health insurance plan. Only 15% preferred to have only the choice of a private plan. And the preference for a choice between public and private health insurance plans extends across all demographic and partisan groups, including Democrats (77%), Independents (79%) and Republicans (63%).

According to an NPR report, "Republicans argue that upward of 100 million Americans would opt out of private insurance in favor of a public plan if such a plan were available."

And yet the story is being spun that Congress would never pass such a thing. Haven't we gotten to the point where nearly everyone understands that our healthcare system sucks, that other countries do it better, and that they do it better because there's a government guarantee of healthcare?

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