Public Still Not Buying Health Care Bill.

• tk421

  

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100330/ts_csm/291408
  
  So, the basic summary is a majority of Americans expect costs to rise and quality of care to go down. What a surprise.
  
  Democrats better pull a rabbit out of a hat before November or they are done.
  

  At the same time, the latest polls show some big campaign-trail challenges ahead for Obama and Democrats. In both the CNN and Washington Post surveys, a majority of Americans cite negative overall feelings about the reform, with 26 percent in each poll outright "angry" about it – reflecting a broader mood of anger in the electorate. When asked whether they would vote for a Democrat or a Republican to serve in Congress, Americans give a slight edge to the Republican, according to an average of such "generic ballot" questions tracked by the RealClearPolitics website.

  A movement to repeal the law could even gain traction. The Rasmussen survey finds Americans favoring repeal by a 54-to-42 margin.

  I do believe that is a wider margin than voted for Obama.
• jhay78

  

  Hopefully people will continue to educate themselves about this bill before November.
  
  Democrats forget that the last few times Americans took to the polls (Nov '09 and Jan '10), they voted for R's in states that Obama won in '08, one of them in Massachusetts for crying out loud. So they can sip the champagne and throw balloons and celebrate a legislative victory all they want.
• FairwoodKing

  By November the public will realize the sky hasn't fallen. The bill will be more popular then than it is now.
• believer

  

  FairwoodKing wrote: The bill will be more popular then than it is now.

  The popularity thing has no place to go but north so it wouldn't take much.
• majorspark

  

  FairwoodKing wrote: By November the public will realize the sky hasn't fallen. The bill will be more popular then than it is now.

  The bill does not evan begin to take effect until 2013. Wonder why all those new taxes don't start until 2013? Obama plans on being safely re-elected when this bill takes effect.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  FairwoodKing wrote: By November the public will realize the sky hasn't fallen. The bill will be more popular then than it is now.

  I predict more little "surprises" will be unveiled between now and November, and quite the opposite will take place.
• Bigdogg

  Who Knows? The Farmer's Son:
  Fortune or Misfortune?
  
  One day in late summer, an old farmer was working in his field with his old sick horse. The farmer felt compassion for the horse and desired to lift its burden. So he left his horse loose to go the mountains and live out the rest of its life.
  
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  At daybreak on the next morning, the farmer's only son set off to attempt to train the new wild horses, but the farmer's son was thrown to the ground and broke his leg. One by one villagers arrived during the day to bemoan the farmer's latest misfortune. "Oh, what a tragedy! Your son won't be able to help you farm with a broken leg. You'll have to do all the work yourself, How will you survive? You must be very sad". they said. Calmly going about his usual business the farmer answered, "Who knows? We shall see"
  
  Several days later a war broke out. The Emperor's men arrived in the village demanding that young men come with them to be conscripted into the Emperor's army. As it happened the farmer's son was deemed unfit because of his broken leg. "What very good fortune you have!!" the villagers exclaimed as their own young sons were marched away. "You must be very happy." "Who knows? We shall see!", replied the old farmer as he headed off to work his field alone.
  
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  As it turned out the other young village boys had died in the war and the old farmer and his son were the only able bodied men capable of working the village lands. The old farmer became wealthy and was very generous to the villagers. They said: "Oh how fortunate we are, you must be very happy", to which the old farmer replied, "Who knows? We shall see!"