The Numbers You Can’t See
These are the hidden numbers. This is the truth from the recent Washington Post/ABC poll on opinions entitled “What Do Insured Think of Health Reform”. Three questions asked and three answered by a significant majority who clearly are positive on health care reform in spite of all the negatives spun every hour on every station and in every newspaper. And we wonder why other polls have the papers dying, surviving only on life support.
Here are the numbers graphed from the poll.
Majority favors health care reform. Minority in panic mode.
Those are the real numbers which include those who believe their coverage, costs, and quality of care will be the same, no better, no worse, with the proposed health care reforms. A solid majority still believes that health care reform will not leave them worse off, not cost more, and will not provide worse quality of care. Every hour we hear and read more and more misleading information.
Today’s Washington Post quoted Robert J. Bendon of Harvard’s School of Public Health and Kennedy School of Government as saying “recent polls show most Americans do not anticipate any aspect of their health care improving if the president’s health-reform proposals were enacted.” This is not exactly the truth. It is as true as last weeks misleading graph shown on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. “This Week” was informed that their graph omitted significant numbers and declined to respond or correct their misinformation.
Here is an image of the misleading graph, missing those who felt that their care would remain as good as it is today. The numbers and missing numbers speak for themselves. No wonder people aren’t sure what to think. They are not being given reliable, accurate, and truthful information by those whose charge it is to do so. Anyone care to explain the constant “grin” by some of those delivering the misleading figures?
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These are all the same words, same speeches given back when the government invented HMOs to give competition and reduce insurance rates. All that the HMOs did was drive other insurance options out and force people in those areas into HMOs. HMOs rewarded doctors for withholding care and the president mentioned withholding care in his speech. Same reasoning, same bad plan. It ended with people dying from long waits and from care being withheld.
The fact that even if a public option is passed it will not go into effect until 2013, safely past the next election, tells the truth about everyone in D.C. knowing that the people will hate it and be furious as soon as they see it is the bad old HMO scheme but even worse.
There is a lot through passing laws the government can do to help, but they need to stay out of running health insurance or health care. A few more years won’t bring a revelation on how to revive a dead horse back to life and it won’t bring one for how to make a national HMO work that angry and unhappy people are forced into.
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