The Washington Examiner reported today, as noted here, that Obamacare is officially dead. Other news outlets have merely said it is is dying, with life support soon to be removed. Whichever it is, the people clearly want to go in a different direction.
As an illustration, Gallup has a poll headline, “Majority Favors Suspending Work on Healthcare Bill,” that seems a bit, if unintentionally, misleading. The majority doesn’t want to pursue Obamacare as currently proposed, true. But that isn’t the same thing as suspending work on reform, as indicated by the question asked by the pollsters. From the poll:
What do you think President Obama and the Democrats in Congress should do now concerning a health care reform bill–should they continue to try and pass the healthcare bill now being worked out by Democrats in the House and Senate (39%) or suspend work on the current healthcare bill the House and Senate are working on and consider alternative bills that can receive more Republican support (56%)?
The Obamacare political debate is over, with the societal hegemonists once again–as in Hillarycare–having lost the debate. But that shouldn’t be the end of it. Our representatives should heed this poll and get to work on targeted fixes. If they don’t, if our current governors just call it a day, it will confirm an as yet unproved suspicion in my mind that the leaders of the Democratic Party wanted a health care takeover to gain control over most aspects of our lives more than they wanted to fix what is actually broken.
January 22nd, 2010 | 1:48 pm
Well, the majority of Americans support embryonic stem cell research, so that debate is over, too, right?
The majority of scientists (especially climatologists >95%) say global warming is real and man plays a significant role in it; therefore the debate is over.
Does anyone seriously think the Democrats (look at their congressional leaders!) are capable of getting any meaningful reform or fix through, be it healthcare, campaign finance, insurance, or banking? Their two Congressional leaders are Beavis and Butthead and they are supposed to lead a bunch of pc vanity whores.
I recommend folks check out some of these polls:
http://www.pollingreport.com/science.htm
(one of the most interesting was at the end whereby, supposedly, 27% of 1025 American adults claim to have “been in a tornado”. Yeah, we aren’t a delusional or idiotic country. [kind of like how everyone doesn't think they personally are fat, yet, somehow, some odd 70% of the country is] Gosh, all those people having actually been in funnel clouds; the gods are taking great care of us)
Wesley J. Smith Reply:
January 22nd, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Actually David, the fight over Bush’s funding policy is over. The fight over ESCR is far less intense because of IPSCs. It will take off again when the attempt is made to fund human cloning. The debate over Obamacare is similarly over, but not the best way to fund health care reform. Nuance, David. Please.
January 22nd, 2010 | 4:17 pm
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January 22nd, 2010 | 8:56 pm
To paraphrase Honest Abe and characterize the anti-healthcare crowd: “You can fool most of the people a lot of the time — and that’s all it takes.”
January 22nd, 2010 | 11:48 pm
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January 23rd, 2010 | 11:17 am
Not anti-healthcare, HW, “anti-this-particular-travesty-of-a-bill.” Again, such a fine distinction.
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