True that nearly three-quarters of those polled (895) favored some kind of different healthcare program. But as usual, the administration's media acolytes gloss over the details, lest the facts get in the way of an inflammatory headline. So here are the details that you won't read in The Times or hear from Katie Couric:
- Support for the President's healthcare entitlement program dropped precipitously to only 47% if the respondents felt that the socialized medicine program would raise their own healthcare costs. And we know healthcare costs will rise after the government drives private ensurers and providers alike out of the market, resulting in a need for healthcare rationing . This has been demonstrated in every country that practices socialized medicine.
- Only 32% were not concerned that the Social Democrats planned entitlement would result in rationing.
- Better than half the respondents were worried that the Obama plan would force them to switch healthcare providers
- Only 43% of those touted by the media mandarins as supporters of the Obama plan for socialized medicine were willing to pay even $500 to support the system. And we know the costs would be far higher. Just look at the marginal tax rates in European countries that practice socialized medicine.
- A paltry 28% of the respondents are drinking the President's Kool-Aid about his socialized healthcare plan improving the economy.
All this means that the President's support for nationalizing our healthcare system is, as we used to say, a mile wide and an inch deep.
The New York Times-CBS News poll shows, as polls before it, that Americans are skeptical of the President's reckless claim that you can have the same or better coverage as you have now at a lower cost.
Or, as my mother used to tell me, if something looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Just thought you might like to know.
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