Health care top domestic concern: poll

[Doondoo]

Access to affordable health care is the top domestic concern among Americans and a majority say the U.S. government should guarantee health insurance to every American, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll released on Thursday.

While the war in Iraq remains the top overall issue among Americans, health care is the No. 1 concern on the domestic agenda, ranked as far more important than immigration, cutting taxes or promoting traditional values, the poll said.

Nearly two-thirds said the federal government should guarantee health insurance for all Americans and half said they would be willing to pay as much as $500 more in taxes a year for universal coverage, it said.

Only 24 percent said they were satisfied with President George W. Bush's handling of the issue, despite his recent initiatives, and 62 percent said Democrats -- not Republicans -- were more likely to improve the health-care system.



http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0121448720070302

[Vinca]

1. When you have little kids dying from a toothache

something is tragically wrong with this country. Anyone should be able to present their federal health care card and receive treatment. I'm sick and tired of our representatives opining long and loud on the floors of the House and Senate, but nothing gets done. Nothing ever gets done. Expand Medicare to everyone today. Take the damn vote and if the Republicans vote against it, we'll vote against them and take another vote.

[raccoon]

3. I think American citizens will have to demand it.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

Frederick Douglass, 1857

[raccoon]

2. I guarantee you some dickhead pundit or columnist will still claim that

"Americans don't want a single-payer system." :puke: