RE: OK, Nathan
www.leninology. blogspot.com quoted Molly Ivins:
The majority (65 percent) of the American people want single-payer health care and are willing to pay more taxes to get it.
I was going to say that all you had to do was insert the words “government-run” in place of “single-payer” and support would drop by 20 points. But I decided to look at an actual poll instead, and by god, my estimate was too low.
AGallup:
Which of the following approaches for providing health care in the United States would you prefer — [ROTATED: replacing the current health care system with a new government run health care system, (or) maintaining the current system based mostly on private health insurance]?
2005 Nov 7-10
Replacing the current system 41%
Maintaining the current system 49%
No opinion 10%
Those aren’t awful numbers, and you could certainly work with them. But don’t get carried away with the inchoate populism/social democracy of the American people.
Doug