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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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From: Kenneth E. Phillipps9/26/2010 12:06:21 PM
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Many Americans Think the Health-Insurance Bill Did Not Go Far Enough
One of the planks of the Republicans' Pledge to America is repeal of the new-insurance law. A new poll conducted by Stanford University ought to give them some pause. Only 25% of Americans think that minor tinkering with the current system is enough. The rest want more radical changes. Now it may well be that the 25% who basically like the current system are all Republican primary voters, but keeping them happy won't be enough to win the general election. If the GOP makes repeal of the health-insurance law the theme of its campaign (without talking about what would replace it), that is not going to go down well with the 75% who think the current system is broken. They could talk about removing the less popular features, like the individual mandate to buy health insurance, but without the mandate people will wait until they get sick to buy insurance and the whole system will collapse. This poll is slightly surprising, but not so much because earlier polls have shown that of the 50% of the population that opposes the law, something like 15-20% oppose it from the left--that is, they want a Canadian-style single-payer system. These people are not likely to be happy with repeal at all.

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