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Written By : TrogloPundit

Headline: Fear of Losing Private Health Insurance Trumps ‘Public Option’

Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters nationwide say guaranteeing that no one is forced to change their health insurance coverage is a higher priority than giving consumers the choice of a “public option” health insurance company.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 29% take the opposite view.

But that’s not the really important number, nor is it the important question. I wouldn’t put it past Congressional Democrats to slip something into whatever thousand-page health care bill they pass – a bill few of them are likely to read – that will “force” citizens to change their coverage.

I doubt that they’d do it. Certainly, they’ll deny it until their faces are blue. But I won’t put it past them.

But the question really isn’t whether ObamaCare will force citizens outright to change their coverage. It’s whether the “public option” will incentivize employers to drop private coverage in favor of government care.

And:

Currently, 53% of insured voters say it’s likely they would have to change their health insurance coverage if the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats becomes law.

That’s the right question, and people get it.

(The TrogloPundit blogs regularly at The TrogloPundit)

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The most revealing statistic: Only 17% of those polled believe that the GOP is doing anything positive to better the American Health Care System.

Posted by snohomish

2009-10-04 16:22:13

What hoggo intentionally fails to tell you is that hardcore leftists consisted of the vast majority in this poll.
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CATO Inst. Health Care Expert Michael F. Cannon on the how the Individual Mandate is Government Run Health Care:

The most hazardous health reform measure before Congress is not the so-called "public option," but proposals to make health insurance compulsory via an individual or employer mandate.

Compulsory health insurance could require nearly 100 million Americans to switch to a more expensive health plan and would therefore violate President Barack Obama's pledge to let people keep their current health insurance. In particular, the legislation before Congress could eliminate many or all health savings account plans. Making health insurance compulsory would also spark an unnecessary fight over abortion and would enable government to ration care to those with private health insurance.

Obama adviser Larry Summers writes that mandates "are like public programs financed by benefit taxes," meaning that compulsory health insurance would also violate President Obama's promise not to increase taxes on the middle class. Under the House Democrats' legislation, some middle-income earners would face marginal tax rates over 50 percent (before state taxes).

The experience in Massachusetts belies the claim that compulsory health insurance brings down health care costs. The "shared responsibility" ruse allows Massachusetts politicians to declare success for a compulsory health insurance scheme whose actual costs reveal it to be a failure. Massachusetts also demonstrates that compulsory health insurance enables, and ultimately requires, politicians and government bureaus to control nearly all aspects of health care and medical practice.

Rather than make health insurance compulsory, Congress should make it more affordable by letting individuals control their earnings and choose their own health plan from any state in the Union.