Monday, June 22, 2009

Serving the Medical-Industrial Complex

By Robert Parry
June 22, 2009

The usual knock on government programs is that they’re not as efficient as the private sector, which we’re told can provide the same product for less money and with higher quality. Thus, it should be no big deal when the public and private collide because the private sector should prevail.

Read on.
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barb said...

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Shocker: NYT Rigged Its Health Care Poll

From the endlessly duplicitous New York Times:

In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health

By KEVIN SACK and MARJORIE CONNELLY

June 21, 2009

Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

The poll found that most Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes so everyone could have health insurance and that they said the government could do a better job of holding down health-care costs than the private sector…

Across a number of questions, the poll detected substantial support for a greater government role in health care, a position generally identified with the Democratic Party. When asked which party was more likely to improve health care, only 18 percent of respondents said the Republicans, compared with 57 percent who picked the Democrats. Even one of four Republicans said the Democrats would do better.

The national telephone survey, which was conducted from June 12 to 16, found that 72 percent of those questioned supported a government-administered insurance plan — something like Medicare for those under 65 — that would compete for customers with private insurers. Twenty percent said they were opposed.

Republicans in Congress have fiercely criticized the proposal as an unneeded expansion of government that might evolve into a system of nationalized health coverage and lead to the rationing of care.

But in the poll, the proposal received broad bipartisan backing, with half of those who call themselves Republicans saying they would support a public plan, along with nearly three-fourths of independents and almost nine in 10 Democrats…

Half of those questioned said they thought government would be better at providing medical coverage than private insurers, up from 30 percent in polls conducted in 2007. Nearly 60 percent said Washington would have more success in holding down costs, up from 47 percent…

Of course we are by now used to our one party media heavily over-sampling Democrats to prove to us how popular their agenda is.

But this latest New York Times poll would even make the Mullahs in Iran blush.

For buried in the details, rather than trumpeted in their slick graphics, is this breakdown:

(Chart was in this area.)

So, in their wisdom, The Times saw fit to solicit the views of Obama voters over McCain voters by a margin of 48 to 25 percent.

Lest we forget, in the last election Mr. Obama got 53% of the vote to Mr. McCain’s 46%.

But what the heck. The Times had to find a way to advance their mission.

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HUMMMmmmmm...

So, in their wisdom, The Times saw fit to solicit the views of Obama voters over McCain voters by a margin of 48 to 25 percent.

Lest we forget, in the last election Mr. Obama got 53% of the vote to Mr. McCain’s 46%.

Could this be the reason that the poll numbers for Obama are still supposedly so high!!!!

BBF
Minneapolis, MN

Mon Jun 22, 03:06:00 PM 2009
Anonymous said...

So, 57% is a "solid majority" who would pay higher taxes. 57% sounds a lot more like just a majority (if the sample is not biased as Bard claims). That 7% will lose interest real fast if it appears that the government can tell them which doctor they can go to.

Mon Jun 22, 06:03:00 PM 2009
Painting Tasters said...

Private companies exist to make a profit. They had their chance to show they could do a the job and make money but they have failed.. miserably.

Tue Jun 23, 06:27:00 PM 2009

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