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Death Panel

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Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant

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  • SteveK
    The Obama Administration has done a poor job explaining what they are doing... add to this the malicious insertion of lies and false innuendos tossed in by the Health Care Industry and their shills (lobbyists and Republicans) it's gotten to the point that most people don't even know what the "Public Option" is...
    Poll: Most Don't Know What "Public Option" Is -- Including Pollsters
    A new survey by Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates for the AARP reveals widespread uncertainty about the nature of the "public option" -- a government-run health insurance policy that would be offered along with private policies in the newly-created health insurance exchanges. Just 37 percent of the poll's respondents correctly identified the public option from a list of three choices provided to them...

    [...]

    This is also why relatively small changes in wording can trigger dramatic shifts in support for the public option, which has been as high as 83 percent in some polls and as low as 35 percent in others depending on who is doing the polling and how they're asking the questions. You don't see those sorts of discrepancies when polling about, say, gay marriage or the death penalty, where the options are a little bit more self-evident.

    [...]
    Average Joe will read "Death Panel For Health Care Reform" in the cartoon above and think it's implying that Obama's Health Care Reform will have Death Panels.
  • DLS
    The proponents continue to be dishonest as well as desperate. What will September bring? Worse.
  • Leonidas
    Palin 1 snobby elitist liberals 0
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