Poll: Republicans Want Anti-HCR GOPers To Just Say No To Gov't Health Care

[Joanne98]

Republicans and independents have decided that incoming members of Congress who ran against health care reform and still take their government-funded benefits are hypocrites. Democrats, not so much.

That's one conclusion from a new national poll from Democratic firm PPP, which shows big majorities of GOP and independent voters saying the politicians who ran against the health care reform law should forgo the health care benefits they're entitled to as employees of the federal government.

Just 28% of Republican respondents said that new anti-reform members should take their federal benefits, while a whopping 58% said they shouldn't. Among independents -- who voted for the GOP in big numbers on Nov. 2 -- 56% say politicians who made health care repeal a cornerstone of their campaigns should deny themselves their government benefits. Only 27% said they should take them.

The split is much narrower among Democrats, who presumably support the health care law and the idea of government-assisted health care in larger numbers than Republicans and independents. Forty percent of Democrats said that politicians who ran against the health care law should take their government care anyway, while 46% said they should decline it.

Overall, the poll shows the electorate is not interested in paying for health care benefits for politicians who opposed government-funded health care on the campaign trail. Just 33% said anti-health care politicians should take their government benefits, while 53% said they should burn their government care cards.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/poll-republicans-tell-new-congress-to-just-say-no-to-govt-health-care.php?ref=fpb

[sakabatou]

1. If they don't want govt health care

No medicare/medicaid for the nor any other gov't subsidized care. The Republicans are making me sick.

[craigmatic]

2. They should've used this as an issue in the campaign. It's the ultimate way to defend HCR.