Repealing Health Care Reform: Figuring Out What the Polls Are Saying

WE HAVE THE MONEY TOO MAIM AND KILL PEOPLE BY FIGHTING TWO WARS,BUT CAN'T AFFORD HEALTH CARE (OBAMA CARE)WHICH SAVES LIVES AND MAKES IT AVAILABLE AND AFFORDABLE FOR MILLIONS DURING THESE TRYING TIMES. ISN'T REPEAL THE ANSWER TOO ALL OF OBAMAS AGENDA ?

From his own words "America has the best healthcare system in the world and with your help we are going to change it". From her own words " we just have to pass it so we will know what is in it". If you are a Democrat or a Republican you should have enough common since to see through this.

I am a business owner. I live in NY. Not manhattan but near the catskills. My take home is at the bottom of the middle class. As the current law is written, I will not be able to afford health insurance for my employees. So the choice now becomes ... let 30% of my force go so i can afford the new coverages imposed by the government, drop it completely or cloe my doors. This is not a fix, this is an ill proposed rushed statute that needs to be severed and re-written pronto. what other discussion is there?

Please, Republicans law makers and citizens, start thinking about common people and not the wealthy. Please think about how your health policy changes will make the insurance companies even wealthier. God forbid you had no insurance and one of your dearest relatives became expensively ill.

Give me liberty or give me death??We have had death for many years because we cant afford healthcare..I want single payer health care!!!This will give me liberty to live....The laise farre republicans have healthcare only for themselves!!!

The bottom line is that Health Care is too important to ram through on party lines, and if only 40% or more of the country doesn't want something that has such such a pervasive influence, it should be repealed. This is not the United Socialist States of America - we have seen what's in the law, and it galls many of us. The Feds do not have authority here - they should concentrate on providing for the common defense and maintaining a stable currency. The Commerce Clause was designed to prevent States from taxing each others goods, which interfered with interstate commerce. It does not authorize participation in commerce - just regulation. But let's be frank. Oba-Mao's goal is to drive out private health care so we can have his socialist single payer system. This should be an impeachable offense.

I see two problems with these polls. One is likely in the way they are reported here. The last four listed all say they are asked of people who disapprove of the health insurance law. But the responses all include a significant number of people who approve of the law. Just how are we supposed to read these numbers? There is one apparent way, but without knowing for sure, it's hard to be clear what the numbers say. The other is more serious and is common in polls on the law: They don't ask why people are against it. Polls that do ask that question - such as one done for AP in late August - find that significant numbers of opponents dislike the law because it doesn't go far enough in regulating the insurance companies and/or changing the health care system. The assumption in most polls on the law - and articles such as this one - is that if you oppose the law it's because you like things at least pretty much the way they are now. That is demonstrably untrue.

The way I see it the Republican plan is to return our country to the low economic status that we had when the country was first founded, and not to return it to the economic powerhouse that we were in the 40s, 50s and 60s... And, they've been doing a great job... We are the only developed industrialized nation that doesn't have some form of universal health care... We are not the best in terms of longevity or infant mortality... We should be doing more to keep our people healthy, and not looking to maximize profits from doing so...

The Republican plan is better : Don't get sick___and if you do get sick or have an accident and no coverage___just die. Now that's some good plan.

The Republican TEA antiAmercian Party believes that insurance company bureaucrats, not physicians, should make your medical decisons. The health care law puts physicians in charge of your medical decisions. The Republican TEA Anti American Party wants to wedge insuarce comapny bureaucrats back between you and your physician, to overrule your physician's advice and to deny you the health care you need because it it too expensive and cuts into the insurance company's profit. Repeal of the health care law means that your health care will again be rationed by insurance company bureaucrats, and your physicians opinion counts for nothing, it's all about insuarance company profit, even if you die as a result. The only problem with the health care law is that it does not go far enough. It should have instituted a single payer system so that ALL Americans coulod get the health acre they need, young or old, rich or poor, not having 38% of Amercians denied the health care they need, as occurs now.