ordnance11 Wrote:Morgan, I do not have the breakdown of the poll of those who do not want Obamacare, but a good portion of those who oppose it are liberals who do not think it goes far enough. And the I really would like to see a poll who reasons for their opposition. Medicare and Medicaid also had their opponents, but you don't see widespread opposition to them.Not any more, no, but look at how they were attacked when they were introduced. I understand the outcry was almost as big as was the outcry about government-paid medical care in Canada when that was introduced, or the UK's NHS when that was introduced, or... well, you get the picture.
People don't like change, even if that change has statistical evidence that shows it'll keep them alive longer on average. (Get the stats from the various official government websites, and you'll see that average life expectancy in the US is lower than average life expectancy elsewhere in the industrialized world, until you get to the age bracket covered by Medicare and the average US life expectancy comes into line with everywhere else.) It's demonstrably good for them but it isn't what they've been doing all along, so it's resisted.
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