This article makes both good points, and bad.
I've said many times that Americans don't have their traditional values. It's tempting to say that Americans aren't Americans anymore, but someone is likely to take me for task for making a claim that's provably false.
On the other hand, it can be shown that there's a marked difference between the thoughts Americans once had about government and debt, and those they have today. The thinking is diametrically opposed.
Socialized medicine was practically a dirty word when I was young. I still consider it a communist concept, but then so much of what's transpiring today is. Most Americans are apparently okay with that.
I guess.
Well, it looks as if they'll eventually get their way. I hope they like it once it's here.
Poll: Just a Third Favor Obama Health Care Law
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON June 20, 2012
Just a third of Americans back President Barack Obama's health care overhaul on which the Supreme Court is about to pass judgment, a new poll finds. But there is overwhelming support among both supporters and opponents for Congress and the president to begin work on a new bill if the high court strikes down the two-year-old law.
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The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the 2010 law in the next week or so. Most of the law's major changes aimed at extending health insurance to more than 30 million Americans who now lack coverage have yet to take effect, including the requirement that most people have health insurance or pay a penalty. The insurance mandate has been among the least popular aspects of the law. Provisions that have gone into effect include extended coverage for young adults on their parents' insurance and relief for seniors with high prescription drug costs.
But whatever people think of the law, they don't want a Supreme Court ruling against it to be the last word on health care reform. More than three-fourths of Americans want their political leaders to undertake a new effort, rather than leave the health care system alone if the court rules against the law, according to the poll.
More: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/poll-vast-support-health-care-effort-16608224
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