"Two Pictures Tell the Story on Health Care Debate"

[Clio the Leo]

Here are the words that were used most frequently by the 45 percent of the country who would tell their Congressman to vote for the health care bill:



And here are the words used most commonly by the 48 percent of the country who would tell their Congressman to vote against it:



As I've argued before, some of the anti-health care sentiment may be based on a misunderstanding about what exactly the bill would do: its hardly a government takeover, leaving the private insurance industry largely intact although certainly enacting a number of important new regulations and restrictions. Nevertheless, it's clear that anti-reform advocates have coyly tapped into a lot of fears about the role of government -- fears which were probably buoyed by the extremely unpopular bailout and somewhat unpopular stimulus package.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/03/two-pictures-tell-story-on-health-care.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[Kalun D]

1. BULLSHIP

"" a misunderstanding about what exactly the bill would do: its hardly a government takeover, leaving the private insurance industry largely intact""

How in the heck can anyone claim to "understand" a 2700 page bill? And doesn't there need to be a government takeover? We are the only country in the developed world that is so privatized.

We do know that Obama supports passage and we do know that he's made back door deals with big pharma and big health care. So that right there says to me this is not real reform.

""fears which were probably buoyed by the extremely unpopular bailout and somewhat unpopular stimulus package.''

that's all this is, another worker funded giveaway to the corporations. More $BILLIONS for the already filthy rich greed pigs.

[FrenchieCat]

2. And Social Security didn't cover Most Black folks by Design when it was passed.....

and yet.

[eridani]

3. It sure the hell wasn't a mandate to invest in the stockmarket or get fucked by the IRS na/t

[denimgirly]

4. Here's hoping the Passing of this Bill will start the long road to catching up with the World.

This bill may not be very good but at least it is a tiny, tiny step that will inevitably need to lead to real reform by way of Single Payer.