[Professor S]

Originally Posted by TheGame

I could see how it could be taken that way prof, but you have to consider the fact that private insurance companies take mostly people who don't have health conditions to start, and if you get too sick you're likely to lose coverage.

This is currently against the law and insurance companies can and have been sued in these extremely rare cases (and thats always the case that makes the news, isn't it?). To say that insurance companies drop people as soon as they get seriously ill is not an accurate or fair comment considering the 10's of millions who are covered and never have a problem like you are describing.

So most of the people who voted on their opinion of their own insurance probably hardly get sick to begin with.

If you want to believe that you can, but the poll concentrated on everyone regardless of whether or not they are insured (only one questions was aimed at the insured) and there is nothing hre to support your claim.

Just because someone doesn't currently have health insurance doesn't mean that they havent had bad experiences with it.

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say here and I don't think any of my arguments claimed they didn't have experiences with it.

And people who voted for the other part objectively could have voted based off of other people's experiences with it who actually got sick or who actually have health conditions to begin with.

That certainly could be the case, but I haven't seen anything that would support such a claim. What we can take from these numbers is that people's perception of other people's healthcare is far different for what the group as a whole is actually receiving (based on personal feedback). In essence, John thinks his healthcare is good, but thinks Jane's is not, and Jane thinks her healthcare is just fine but thinks John's stinks. According to this poll, this negativity is not warrented.

This is much more likely a result of political efforts and media messages/sensationalism than word of mouth from all the people with poor healthcare who were disproportionally excluded from the polling process. To achieve the kind of inaccrurate reporting you claim is to assume the poll is intentionally biased and thats simply dismissing parts you don't like (the majority of the poll it turns out) because it's inconvenient to your point of view. In that case you would have been better off not referencing it.