cross-posted from http://www.examiner.com/...
"If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality healthcare, if they tell us that they're offering a good deal, then why is it that the government, which they say can't run anything, suddenly is going to drive them out of business? That's not logical." - President Barack Obama
Oh, Barack, you and your silly logic. Don't you realize nearly half the country isn't ready for a rational leader?
Despite the right-wing's senseless opposition to a public option in President Obama's healthcare reform plan the majority of the country seems to support such an option. In a recent poll by NBC/Wall Street Journal 76% of respondents said it was either "extremely" or "quite" important to "give people a choice of both a public plan administered by the federal government and a private plan for their health insurance."
This seems to suggest, even as Fox News inexplicably dominates the cable pseudo-news channels, that much of the country is finally ignoring a crusade from the right-wing fear machine. Americans may finally be ready to shake off the panic dust tossed at them from above by the wealthy GOP elite, dust they've used for decades to coat an average American's capability for rational discourse in order to terrify them into supporting whatever pro-corporate, anti-worker initiative they've cooked up to make themselves richer while the bottom 40% watch their wages and dreams curdle.
This may just suggest that Americans finally want something that's good for them, and to hell with their predisposition for right-wing panic and propaganda.
And that's not just a good thing, that's a world-changing thing.
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