CBS/NYT Poll: A Majority of Americans Want Gov’t Issued Health Insurance

[This article posted on February 16, 2009. It is posted within the following categories: Healthcare Policy & The Media, Politics & The Law, via Michael Douglas, MD, MBA.]

During tough economic times, the vicissitudes of human nature essentially dictate that something good has to come out of all this negativity everyone is experiencing in this severe economic downturn. So, it comes as no surprise that a recent poll found that the majority of Americans think the future is, indeed, brighter. It just has to be. With respect to healthcare, attidues toward the concept of access as more of a right than a privileged commodity are in the majority. Most Americans surveyed thought that nationalization of healthcare is the way of the future, a complete reversal of 30 years ago, when less than a third of all citizens thought such a plan is best equipped for emergencies on a national scale. Will this info be enough to shake Obama out of his current stoicism on healthcare policy? Perhaps he’s just waiting for the right HHS Secretary for that notion. | PDF LINK

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