Americans are beginning to doubt the economics and the effectiveness of the ObamaCare legislation and by all rights they should! According to a new poll 43% oppose and 41% support it with the rest not knowing what we are even talking about because they are worried about how they are going to pay rent.
And seemingly, the supporters of Obamacare are less enthusiastic than the opposers. Worse, they are more vocal. From the Dittoheads to the Crazy Christian right they are screaming bloody murder everyday.
The latest survey was conducted by Stanford University with the nonprofit Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Very surprising to me was the fact that the Opinion Poll demonstrated that most Americans seemed happy to allow the discriminatory health insurance practices of denying coverage to the sick to continue unabated. In fact, rather then help their fellow citizens which would make them have to pay higher premiums to cover the uninsured sick people most people surveyed vocally announced their support for the continuation of the prejudicial underwriting practices.
In the AP poll, when told that such a ban would probably cause most people to pay more for their health insurance, 43 percent said they would still support doing away with pre-existing condition denials but 31 percent said they would oppose it.
In Massachusetts where they currently have mandatory health insurance and New York, the costs for a 20 year old healthy male can be over a $1000. In Florida where insurance is not mandatory they are usually under $100. By forcing the acceptance of the sick by health insurance companies, it will push up the premiums for the healthy 20 year olds and such by a considerable percent much like it did in New York and Massachusetts.
I am not opposed to this in theory but in practice it is downright silly! The only way to fix this issue entirely is to have everyone pay taxes on a Universal Health Care, Single Payer Plan. Otherwise, we will keep seeing health care costs escalate as well as billions of dollars of fraudulent claims and administraitive costs pushing health care costs up to becoming the only significant output of our economy. We are becoming the joke of the civilized world with our absolute archaic health insurance laws.
“These trade-offs really matter,” says Robert Blendon, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health who follows opinion trends. “The legislation contains a number of features that polls have shown to be popular, but support for the overall legislation is less than might be expected because people are worried there are details about these bills that could raise their families’ costs.”
Another important fact is that these polls don’t make a difference at all because the average American is totally uneducated about Health Care. They have no idea what is the right thing and believe that Rush Limbaugh is descended from Angels. To let average American’s decide the health care issue is bordering on ludicrous. Their job is to elect their Representatives to make the policy decisions on their behalf. Not to write the freakin thing.
Let’s see what might happen by next year if there are still improvement and we can judge from there.