Clear majority supports public option. Will Senate deliver for the people or continue to whore out to insurance companies? Stay tuned...

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

57 percent of all Americans now favor a public insurance option, while 40 percent oppose it. Support has risen since mid-August, when a bare majority, 52 percent, said they favored it. (In a June Post-ABC poll, support was 62 percent.)

If a public plan were run by the states and available only to those who lack affordable private options, support for it jumps to 76 percent. Under those circumstances, even a majority of Republicans, 56 percent, would be in favor of it, about double their level of support without such a limitation.

Fifty-six percent of those polled back a provision mandating that all Americans buy insurance, either through their employers or on their own or through Medicare or Medicaid. That number rises to 71 percent if the government were to provide subsidies for many lower-income Americans to help them buy coverage. With those qualifiers, a majority of Republicans say they support the mandate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...ml?hpid=topnews

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I've been saying it for some time now, there will be a public option and it will be popular. The train has left the station without the GOP on board. Mr. Steele better revisit his idea of trying to be the cow on the tracks. A cow don't stop a train.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

...but those who are loudest don't want it. Isn't that how democracy is suppose to work?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

...but those who are loudest don't want it. Isn't that how democracy is suppose to work?

Yes.

[HAL 9000 96]

I've been saying it for some time now, there will be a public option and it will be popular. The train has left the station without the GOP on board. Mr. Steele better revisit his idea of trying to be the cow on the tracks. A cow don't stop a train.

True story-

I was on a bus in Colombia that hit a cow.

...but those who are loudest don't want it. Isn't that how democracy is suppose to work?

Yes.

I second the motion. Not just be the loudest, but obstruct the most.

[Ban Hammer 14,569]

I second the motion. Not just be the loudest, but obstruct the most.

you want code pink to be in charge?

[HAL 9000 96]

I second the motion. Not just be the loudest, but obstruct the most.

you want code pink to be in charge?

Why do you hate code pink?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I second the motion. Not just be the loudest, but obstruct the most.

you want code pink to be in charge?

Why do you hate code pink?

Dude, they're loud and fugly.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I second the motion. Not just be the loudest, but obstruct the most.

you want code pink to be in charge?

Why do you hate code pink?

Dude, they're loud and fugly.

And old, way too old.

[alienlovechild 75]

57 percent of all Americans now favor a public insurance option, while 40 percent oppose it. Support has risen since mid-August, when a bare majority, 52 percent, said they favored it. (In a June Post-ABC poll, support was 62 percent.)

They're for it but most don't know what it is even after daily coverage for months.

"Poll: Most Don't Know What "Public Option" Is -- Including Pollsters"

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/08/pol...lic-option.html