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More than three out of every four Americans feel it is important to have a "choice" between a government-run health care insurance option and private coverage, according to a public opinion poll released on Thursday.
A new study by SurveyUSA puts support for a public option at a robust 77 percent, one percentage point higher than where it stood in June.
But the numbers tell another story, as well.
Earlier in the week, after pollsters for NBC dropped the word "choice" from their question on a public option, they found that only 43 percent of the public were in favor of "creating a public health care plan administered by the federal government that would compete directly with private health insurance companies."
Opponents of the president's agenda jumped on the findings as evidence that backing for the public option was dropping. Proponents responded by arguing that NBC's tinkering with the language of the question (which it had also done in its July survey) had contributed to the drop in favorability for a public plan.
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And here comes the next sentence, which I'm sure plenty of people will just get lost on and automatically discount everything because of ...
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SurveyUSA's poll, which was commissioned by the progressive group MoveOn.org, a proponent of the public plan, gives credence to those critiques.
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If anybody can show SurveyUSA doing improper polls, that would be helpful in backing up the inevitable claims...
But here's something I found incredibly interesting...
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While arguments about what type of language best describe the public option persist --"choice" is considered a trigger word that everyone naturally supports -- it seems clear that the framing of the provision goes a long way toward determining its popularity.
In asking its question SurveyUSA used the same exact words that NBC/Wall Street Journal had used when conducting its June 2009 survey. That one that found 76 percent approval for the public option: "In any health care proposal, how important do you feel it is to give people a choice of both a public plan administered by the federal government and a private plan for their health insurance--extremely important, quite important, not that important, or not at all important?"
To ensure that its respondent pool was composed of people from similar demographics and political mindsets, SurveyUSA asked respondents a question pulled directly from NBC's August survey. The results were nearly identical.
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New Poll: 77 Percent Support "Choice" Of Public Option
It's rather obvious that the ACTUAL CONTENT of an
OPTION is glaringly important.
With that said, can Republicans respect the
ACTUAL WISHES OF THE REAL AMERICAN PEOPLE???
I am tired of noisy people pretending they are a majority when they aren't.
I am tired of noisy people pretending that the government should bow to a group that is actually a minority, just cause they claim they are a majority.
A MAJORITY want change.
We can discuss the CONTENT of that change, but the above SHOULD be an obvious part of that change.
Three-quarters of the country is NOTHING to sneeze at...