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Originally Posted by TheGame
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n5098517.shtml
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=112818960.
We can speculate about if people are against how the healthcare change is being handled now because of the public option, or because it won't include the public option all day. But the fact of the matter is 'the people' and 'the doctors' want a public option for health insurance. Poll after poll after poll shows this.
If the public option doesn't pass, its not because the people didn't want it, its because the influences in washington didn't want it.
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Game, I don't feel like dancing this same tired dance again (we can both read it in previous posts in this thread). I'll just end my side of the argument (again) by restating the obvious:
Are people in favor of a government run option? Yes. You may as well ask people if they are in favor of free sandwiches. Who doesn't want a free sandwich?
Have people been in favor of
any government run option that has been presented to them by their government? No, because when people look at the reality of government run healthcare they don't like what they see. Thats why every poll since JULY that has asked opinions on the CURRENT government run healthcare bills has shown that a majority of people don't favor that specific legislation. If anyone would like to page back a few they'll see the polls and reports that reflect this FACT, but honestly if you didn't bother to read it and process it the first time I doubt you will the second.
People don't want the free sandwich anymore when they find out it's filled with razor blades. The idea of the free sandwich is wonderful, but once they take a bite they want to spit it out.