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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (9902)	9/30/2009 1:28:46 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

How about the New England Journal of Medicine? Sounds like it was a very honest poll. Honest, perhaps. Statistically representative, another matter.

To: Road Walker who wrote (9902)	9/30/2009 1:39:32 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

majority of U.S. physicians support using both public and private insurance options to expand coverage. In their question they defined public option as "like Medicare". But we are not talking Medicare, are we? If that were the case, why not just change the criteria for eligibility, and/or allow people to "buy in". Why would we need a whole brand new duplicate bureaucracy? That alone would make me question this study. Another thing - it took place last April, way before numerous other controversies about the "public option" (and the reform in general) were brought to public attention. Basically, sounds like it was little more than a quickie poll, consisting of just a few simple questions. How many months does it take to perform and to publish a poll?

To: Road Walker who wrote (9902)	9/30/2009 4:11:13 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

I have read a number of these articles and an frustrated by the shallowness of the coverage. We don't know what it is that they are supporting and why. The only hint I've gotten from any of them is that there may be a reaction to the nuisance of dealing with a bunch of insurance companies. While I appreciate how they might feel about that, it hardly seems adequate justification to me for doing something so drastic. Have you seen any other/better explanations?