So much for the oft-repeated talking point that the American people are demanding we do something:
Thirty-five percent (35%) of American voters say passage of the bill currently working its way through Congress would be better than not passing any health care reform legislation this year. However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most voters (54%) say no health care reform passed by Congress this year would be the better option.
As Rasmussen goes on to note, this doesn’t mean people don’t want reform, but that they don’t want the reform Obama and his Democrats are currently touting. From what I can gather, the majority seem to want:
1. Some sort of mechanism to provide coverage for the un-insured who are unable to pay for insurance (which is not the same as total number of people uninsured).
2. Better protections for expensive procedures/conditions.
3. More control of health care decisions in the hands of doctors and patients.
The trouble with this is that none of these desired aims requires a massive, government-run reorganization of our entire health care system…and thus such things don’t commend themselves to liberal Statists who understand that if they can get us all on the government health care dime, we’ll never get ourselves off of it, and thus we’ll be ripe for the complete Europeanization of the United States. Remember, for the left its all about control – they are sick and darned tired of our unwillingness to bend and so they want a means where they can apply pressure on us to conform to their ideas of what constitutes a good society.
Instinctively, I think the American people are realizing this – that Obama doesn’t give a hoot about whether or not anyone gets any actual care at all, but is determined to impose controls upon us. And thus the growing popular rebellion.
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