Barack Obama,  Obamacare,  Polling

Obamacare Poll Watch: 32 Per Cent Favor Single-Payer Health Care, 57 Per Cent Oppose

Obama on Single Payer Health Care, August 2008

So says the latest Rasmussen poll.

Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% are opposed to a single-payer plan.

Fifty-two percent (52%) believe such a system would lead to a lower quality of care while 13% believe care would improve. Twenty-seven percent (27%) think that the quality of care would remain about the same.

Forty-five percent (45%) also say a single-payer system would lead to higher health care costs while 24% think lower costs would result. Nineteen percent (19%) think prices would remain about the same.

There’s wide political disagreement over the single-payer issue. Sixty-two percent (62%) of Democrats favor a single-payer system, but 87% of Republicans are opposed to one. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 22% favor a single-payer approach while 63% are opposed.

President Obama, of course, knows the polling and is hedging his bets by dissing a single payer plan while disingenuously floating a reform program which stealthily brings it about.

Smart politics or is it deception of the highest order?

I don’t think you can fool the voters on this one and note the overwhelming opposition to single payer by independent voters (63%).


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