American Healthcare System Improves Dramatically in Just 3 Months
Rasmussen reports that nearly half of Americans polled rate the healthcare system as good or excellent. These numbers represent a dramatic increase from the 35% answering similarly in May of this year.
Has American healthcare gotten dramatically better in the last quarter? Of course not. The reason for the improvement, I believe, is readily understood: The public, having seen and heard portions of the Democrats’ proposals to revamp the nation’s medical delivery mechanisms, have suddenly come to realize that they do in fact have something to lose.
Our system is nothing short of bizarre. It giveth and it taketh away with little rhyme or reason, its rules make sense to no one, and it is overly burdened with governmental regulation and distorted by federal programs like Medicare. Yet things can always get worse and they often do when Congress gets involved. That’s why millions of Americans have belatedly come to embrace the status quo – they know that they’ll be worse off under the Obama plan than they are now.
Liberals are enraged at being foiled by the mere citizenry, as demonstrated by Dick Durbin (D-IL), who said, “I hope my colleagues won’t fall for a sucker-punch like this” in reference to town hall meetings in which American voters have jumped all over Democrats for their massive spending plans, including bushwhacking new Democrat Arlen Specter in Philly.
The lesson for Democrats is that they are not entitled to ram their liberal agenda down the throats of the Americans who voted them into office, as Specter found out first-hand.
If Democrats continue down this road, which can only end in tax hikes for the people who believed Mr. Obama’s solemn pledge of now new taxes on the middle-class, the result will be a dramatic Republican resurgence circa 1994.
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Rasmussen reports that nearly half of Americans polled rate the healthcare system as good or excellent. These numbers represent a dramatic increase from the 35% answering similarly in May of this year. 
Surprising that Specter felt “comfortable” enough to admit/discuss how he doesn’t read a bill. Wouldn’t the smarter answer have been “We are working very hard and closely studying all of the issues and proposals”.
There seems to a be a large “misread” of public sentiment. The Dems felt there was a mandate for significant health care change. I don’t think they realized there was/is a coincident anxiety regarding healhtcare change. I believe that’s why “read the bill” resonates. Hey, everyone has the experience of reading the fine print of their insurance policy AFTER THE FACT.