No compromise! Single payer program saves people risks waiting for private insurance failing them. As to the cost, single payer program is cheaper than allowing the bubble of the private insurance sectors bankrupts more people. Ignoring the welcome known demand of the public last election is not a leadership achievement or independent objectiveness but the selfish ego topple most empires in the past history.
. Anyone who lives in the continental United States, has a home telephone, and is at least 18 years of age is a potential respondent. Poll recipients are selected through a process known as Random Digit Dialing, or RDD. Essentially a computer generates lists of working area codes & telephone exchanges (the first 3 no.s) & then makes up the last 4 digits, in order to allow unlisted numbers to be included along with listed ones.
The ABC/Washington poll, for example, asked about support for "having the government create a new health insurance plan to compete with private health insurance plans,". Got any prob. w/ that wording? The actual questions used are available on-line, so feel free to specify any poll question you think was biased. Also, reputable polls try to ask the same question on successive polls to better track trends, & the trends are to increased support for the public option.
Looks like CBS is now getting into the "choose your side" opinion news instead of being a real news station. How sad. Walter Cronkite is probably rolling over in his grave.
Rasmussens recent poll: 57% support a public option.
Oct. 20 Washington Post: 57 percent of all Americans now favor a public insurance option, while 40 percent oppose it. Support has risen since mid-August, when a bare majority, 52 percent, said they favored it.
Oct 19 ABC News: But 57 percent support one of the plan's most contentious elements, a government-sponsored insurance option, and that soars to 76 percent if it's limited to those who can't get affordable private insurance.
A USA Today/Gallup poll released last week found 50 percent backed a public option and 46 percent opposed it,
CNN poll: 61 percent supported an insurance option administered by the government and 38 percent opposed.
Ipsos/McClatchy poll specifically asked respondents if they believed "it is necessary to create a public health insurance plan," 52 percent of respondents agreed
Polls depend on who takes them and how the question is asked. Without the knowledge of the question asked and mix of the population, any poll means very little.
A statistic dept is hiring mathematicians. 3 people show up.
Compared to the other polls which survey all citizens Rasmussen's poll includes only "likely voters" which excludes lower income individuals who as a group tend to be disproportionately in favor of the public option.
There is a reason Fox news uses the Rasmussen polls. Those surveys seem to exist solely to advance GOP talking points. Its the Reason those poll results are often at odds with other polls and always more in favor of GOP talking points.
Don't lay-back before this Christmas. Go on streets and use your community to strongly re-affirm demands for a health care reform bill.
beancube2008 2 years ago
No compromise! Single payer program saves people risks waiting for private insurance failing them. As to the cost, single payer program is cheaper than allowing the bubble of the private insurance sectors bankrupts more people. Ignoring the welcome known demand of the public last election is not a leadership achievement or independent objectiveness but the selfish ego topple most empires in the past history.
beancube2008 2 years ago
. Anyone who lives in the continental United States, has a home telephone, and is at least 18 years of age is a potential respondent. Poll recipients are selected through a process known as Random Digit Dialing, or RDD. Essentially a computer generates lists of working area codes & telephone exchanges (the first 3 no.s) & then makes up the last 4 digits, in order to allow unlisted numbers to be included along with listed ones.
megarational 2 years ago
The ABC/Washington poll, for example, asked about support for "having the government create a new health insurance plan to compete with private health insurance plans,". Got any prob. w/ that wording? The actual questions used are available on-line, so feel free to specify any poll question you think was biased. Also, reputable polls try to ask the same question on successive polls to better track trends, & the trends are to increased support for the public option.
megarational 2 years ago
Looks like CBS is now getting into the "choose your side" opinion news instead of being a real news station. How sad. Walter Cronkite is probably rolling over in his grave.
yankeegal01 2 years ago
You gotta be FREAKING kidding me???
Can the MEDIA WHORES get real for a second????
Disgusting, stupid bitch
AStarSpangledGirl 2 years ago
Rasmussen Poll Nov 22
Favor HCare = 38%
Against HCare = 56%
Go ahead Democrat Senator Vote in favor of HCare.
2010 is coming and we are watching.
Independent Voter.
iamavet 2 years ago
Rasmussens recent poll: 57% support a public option.
Oct. 20 Washington Post: 57 percent of all Americans now favor a public insurance option, while 40 percent oppose it. Support has risen since mid-August, when a bare majority, 52 percent, said they favored it.
Oct 19 ABC News: But 57 percent support one of the plan's most contentious elements, a government-sponsored insurance option, and that soars to 76 percent if it's limited to those who can't get affordable private insurance.
megarational 2 years ago
A USA Today/Gallup poll released last week found 50 percent backed a public option and 46 percent opposed it,
CNN poll: 61 percent supported an insurance option administered by the government and 38 percent opposed.
Ipsos/McClatchy poll specifically asked respondents if they believed "it is necessary to create a public health insurance plan," 52 percent of respondents agreed
megarational 2 years ago
Polls depend on who takes them and how the question is asked. Without the knowledge of the question asked and mix of the population, any poll means very little.
A statistic dept is hiring mathematicians. 3 people show up.
Question is what is 1/3 + 2/3?
1. Pure Math person says = 1
2.applied Math person says = .99999
3. statistician: "What do you want it to be?"
iamavet 2 years ago
Compared to the other polls which survey all citizens Rasmussen's poll includes only "likely voters" which excludes lower income individuals who as a group tend to be disproportionately in favor of the public option.
There is a reason Fox news uses the Rasmussen polls. Those surveys seem to exist solely to advance GOP talking points. Its the Reason those poll results are often at odds with other polls and always more in favor of GOP talking points.
megarational 2 years ago