Almost all polls, even Kaiser Health Care Proves a majority want the public option and approval is rising!

When the American public is polled, anywhere from 50 to 70 percent favor a public option.

So that means that when compared to their patients, doctors are bigger supporters of a public option.

Kaiser Family Foundation Kaiser Health Tracking Poll. Oct. 8-15, 2009. N=1,200 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3 (for all adults).

"Which comes closer to describing your own views? It is more important than ever to take on health care reform now. OR, Given the serious economic problems facing the country we cannot afford to take on health care reform right now." Options rotated

More-Important-Now-Than-Ever Cannot-Afford-Right-Now Unsure

10/8-15/09 55 41 4
9/11-18/09 57 39 4
8/4-11/09 53 42 6
7/7-14/09 56 39 5
6/1-8/09 61 35 4
4/2-8/09 59 37 4
2/3-12/09 62 34 4
12/4-14/08 61 37 2

"Which comes closer to your opinion about what Congress and the President should do regarding health care reform this year? They should continue trying to pass a major reform of the health care system. They should stop trying to pass a major reform this year and instead work on passing a more limited version. They should leave health care reform for another time."

Try-to-Pass-Major-Reform Work-on-Limited-Version Leave-for-Another-Time Unsure

10/8-15/09 49% 22% 26% 3%
9/11-18/09 50% 25% 22% 3%

"Do you think you and your family would be better off or worse off if the President and Congress passed health care reform, or don't you think it would make much difference?"

Better Off Worse Off Not Much Difference It Depends Unsure
10/8-15/09 41% 27% 28% 2% 3%

Most doctors — 63 percent — say they favor giving patients a choice that would include both public and private insurance.

That's the position of President Obama and of many congressional Democrats. In addition, another 10 percent of doctors say they favor a public option only; they'd like to see a single-payer health care system. Together, the two groups add up to 73 percent.

When the American public is polled, anywhere from 50 to 70 percent favor a public option. So that means that when compared to their patients, doctors are bigger supporters of a public option.

Doctors' Support For Public Option 'Broad And Widespread'

The researchers say they found strong support for a public option among all categories of doctors. "We even saw that support being the same whether physicians lived in rural areas or metropolitan areas," says Federman. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112818960

Puny-1,
Don't you think you're doing your comrades a dis-service, and giving them a false sense of security by padding the #s? I'm just lookin' out for your peeps.

Oxy, I have never, ever padded any poll or other numbers as anyone using Google can plainly see via the links, polling dates & pollster sources I always provide!

So why not prove me wrong? LOL at your failed oxy frauds.

Thank you daballofire. I too was going to remind everyone not to believe the poll. I think the majority of Americans realize whatever the Democrats come up with will be a disaster and they are the traitors.

Yes, but last month NBC had the poll the other way around, you doofus. Leiberman is a 1000 miles behind the rest of America? America is in support of it now. Looks like someone's tinfoil hat is on a bit too tight.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 29% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11 (see trends).
Voters not affiliated with either party continue to heavily favor Republicans, 41% to 21%.

For the second straight week, 34% of voters say the United States is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

The majority of voters (61%) continue to believe the nation is heading down the wrong track, up slightly from last week. This finding has remained fairly consistent after dropping nine points from the week leading up to the president’s inauguration.

Forty-two percent (42%) support the health care reform bill, but 54% oppose it. Support for the plan has dropped eight points from when the bill was first proposed in June, while opposition has increased by nine points.

The only people who could benefit from the health care deform bill with "public option" are those who:
(1) Never pay income taxes and depend upon working Americans to pay the added costs.
(2) Have no faith in their physicians and won't mind having government mandated protocols and bureaucrats determine how they should be treated.
(3) Don't mind extended delays to get a doctor's appointment.
(4) Hate their elders and look forward to denial of benefits to anyone covered by Medicare or Medicaid.
If our media informed the public of the real implications of the pending plan, the poll results would indicate far less support of the proposed socialistic plan.

I certainly know and socialize with quite a few Doctors, not one of them is for the public option. It costs an orthropaedic surgeon $114.00 for a patient to walk in their door, yet the govt now wants to give them less than $60.00. If you think for one moment that this "health care bill" has anyone's interest at heart, you are fooling yourselves. Doctors will either not accept any insurance or simply retire. I see some say that npr gives some good data on doctors, but in my experience, other than the "left wing' of the AMA, most are against it. (washington post reported that in august) Seems that the left wants to disguise the real facts when rasmussin and others report than over 50% of americans are against this health care debacle.
most want the healthcare fixed, a good point to start is in Govt. waste then go to torte reform. the problem is that lawyers (whom would lose alot of money) are against this for obvious reasons.
If you think you want the Feds to regulate healthcare, look at what they have done to social security and how they are dealing with the waste in medicare. doctors, other healthcare providers, elderly and the middle class will lose out. If you think it is expensive now, just wait until the lying democrats get their way.
you can pull any of your so called "stats' out, but other reliable non-partisan polls show a differing opinion.

bjreg3
6:40PM Oct 27th 2009

I agree completely.
To me, the poll results are meaningless until someone explains to the public exactly what the so-called public option provides, what it will cost and how it will be administered.

While Senator Reid has released little information about the latest version of the health care plan and its public option, many aspects of the Baukus version will presumably be included. If so, either the AMA is deliberately deceiving us about the reasons it agreed to lobby in behalf of the bill or the Association itself has been the victim of Reid's deception.

Following is an unedited quote from the AMA describing its objectives:

"Health insurance coverage for all Americans
Insurance market reforms that expand choice of affordable coverage and eliminate denials for pre-existing conditions
Assurance that health care decisions will remain in the hands of patients and their physicians, not insurance companies or government officials
Investments and incentives for quality improvement, prevention and wellness initiatives
Repeal of the Medicare physician payment formula that would trigger steep cuts and threaten seniors' access to care
Implementation of medical liability reforms to reduce the cost of defensive medicine
Streamlining and standardizing of insurance claims processing requirements to eliminate unnecessary costs and administrative burdens"

I have heard nothing to suggest that the Democrats intend to satisfy the AMA's desires to keep decisions in the hands of physicians and their patients without government interference, to repeal rather than extend the Medicare formula for payments to physicians, to implement tort reform or even to streamline processing.

Yet AMA is still lobbying the plan with no concern about the costs it will impose on taxpayers. Does it know more about the plan than we do, or is it just collaborating with the liberals in pulling the wool over our eyes?

You guys conveniently leave out the Wall Street Journal's supposed "bias", not exactly a left wing news rag, you morons (or is it too complicated for you to read?)

Did you see the new guy in Detroit asking those folks about the health care debate. They all kept saying it was free heath care. The news guy asked them who was going to pay for it and they said Obama - it was 'Obama Money' paying for it. He asked where Obama got his money and they said they didn't know or care, they all knew or cared about was that it was 'Obama Money' paying for their free health care.

They were already getting free health care through Medicaid no doubt about it, but they wanted that new freer health care paid for by 'Obama Money'. It reminded me of the night Obama was elected and the lady from Detroit said she was so happy now that she didn't have to pay her mortgage payment any more because Obama was going to do it for her - probably with 'Obama Money'.

Most Americans forget that we already give free health care to the poorest 20% of Americans through Medicaid - nearly 50 million of them now. What the left wants to do is give free health care to the remaining 30% of Americans that vote for them and create a larger, more dependent, dumbed down, democratic voter block - if that is possible. This is nothing but classic socialist wealth transfer from the 50% of Americans that still pay income taxes to those that do not pay income taxes but somehow think that Obama is going to cure all their problems for them by paying their freight - with his 'Obama Money'. How stupid and lazy can a lefty voter get? Pretty frightening.