{"id":31633,"date":"2016-05-20T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=31633"},"modified":"2016-05-20T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T17:09:09","slug":"majority-of-americans-including-41-of-republicans-favor-socialist-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=31633","title":{"rendered":"Majority Of Americans (Including 41% Of Republicans) Favor Socialist Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) has been a contentious point of debate in the media ever since it was proposed by a timid Congress that worked fervently to water it down and excise its most progressive elements. In subsequent polling the nation has appeared divided on whether they favored the insurance reforms, although the polls often neglected to differentiate from those who opposed it because it went too far and those who who opposed it because it didn’t go far enough.<\/p>\n

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This week Gallup released a poll<\/a><\/strong> that definitively settles that question. They gave respondents a clear choice that included the option of “Replacing the ACA with a federally funded healthcare program providing insurance for all Americans.”<\/em> That option, which is essentially universal healthcare, received a clear majority of 58% favoring it.<\/p>\n

What’s more, when Gallup broke down the responses by party, it revealed that 41% of Republicans were in favor of the federally funded option as well. Not a majority, nor even close to the 73% of Democrats, but a surprisingly high figure representing the heretofore unknown socialist wing of the GOP.<\/p>\n

The other options in the poll were “Keeping the Affordable Care Act in place,”<\/em> which was divided 48-49%, and “Repealing the Affordable Care Act”<\/em> which was also close at 51-45%. However, as Gallup noted:<\/p>\n

“…the group of Americans in this survey who favor the law’s repeal, a core policy proposal of many Republican presidential candidates during this campaign season, includes some who apparently want the ACA repealed to replace it with an even more liberal system.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ObamaCare, in its present form, has been an unqualified success. It has brought the number of uninsured down to historically low levels. It has kept the cost of healthcare down, both in premiums paid to insurers and direct costs of care. It has guaranteed access to insurance for people with preexisting conditions and provided equality of cost and care for women. These are just a few of the reasons that, despite a concerted effort by Fox News and other conservative media to scare Americans away<\/a> from it, ObamaCare continues to enjoy widespread popularity.<\/p>\n

Considering the broad appeal of a universal, Medicare-for-all style healthcare program, it would be advantageous for the presidential candidates to pay heed to the will of the people. To date, only Bernie Sanders has taken a position that fully embraces this policy. Hillary Clinton, though, has been inching toward it with a recent statement in support of a public option.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It would also be helpful if the media would cover this preference on the part of the American people. This may not be as sexy a subject as Donald Trump’s latest sleaze mongering, but the press is supposed to be a source of credible information, particularly in the midst of a presidential campaign. No one would expect Fox News to report the results of this poll, and they haven’t. It would completely contradict their phony free-market, crony-capitalist, Republican sponsored narrative. But the rest of the national television newscasters have largely ignored it as well. And without a responsible media giving this issue the attention it deserves, the candidates for both national and local offices will feel no pressure to address it either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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