The Florida poll shows that the percentage of people who disagree with DemocratCare (50%) is almost identical with the percentage that think it will make health care worse (47%) and that think it will make health care more expensive (51%). http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=3c025172-d766-4ce7-928f-01f11c9c0671&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter For your analysis to hold water, these figures would have to be far further apart. Only 20% of respondents think DemocratCare will "make health care better" -- which is about the same percentage of Americans who self-identify as "liberals" and nearly all of whom would be in the 39% who supported the SCOTUS decision. Only 12% think it will reduce health care costs. (I also note that the Florida survey included only 61% white people; the Nov. 6th electorate will be substantially whiter than that.)
What you are neglecting is that for the most part, the people who think the ACA didn't go far enough believe that going to single payer will both improve the quality of health care and reduce its cost.
The most striking info from that poll is the following:
Should everyone in the United States be required to have health insurance?
| Republicans | Democrats | Independents |
| Yes | 13% | 59% | 35% |
| No | 86% | 39% | 58% |
| Not sure | 1% | 2% | 7% |
Should insurance companies be able to deny health insurance to those who have pre-existing medical conditions?
| Republicans | Democrats | Independents |
| Yes | 27% | 6% | 14% |
| No | 68% | 85% | 80% |
| Not sure | 5% | 9% | 6% |
It just goes to show that we have a nation of idiots, if so many people apparently think results would be desirable if we required insurance companies to issue insurance at will without requiring people to buy it. That particular idiocy is somewhat more concentrated among Republicans than Democrats, but there is more than enough to go around.
You're sort of right. We are a nation of idiots, mostly because the cultural elites want us that way. I define "idiocy" as thinking that there is any such thing as "insurance for a pre-existing condition". A pre-existing condition, when words meant things, is, by definition, non-insurable. But I just heard a commercial featuring Mitt Romney -- the scion of both Harvard Business and Harvard Law Schools! -- saying that "we must provide insurance for pre-existing conditions".
So, tell your progressive friends not to worry: Thanks to an intentionally mal-informed electorate, we'll have a two-tier, North Korean-style health care system sooner than they think.
You mean British-style, Australian-style, or Canadian-style, right? Or French, German, Russian, South Korean, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Israeli, Taiwanese, Brazilian, Argentine, along with nearly all of europe, except for belarus, serbia, bulgaria, albania, turkey, and montenegro, AND quite a few other countries. Not quite North Korean-style, but pretty much Entire Western World except for us-style.
