Coulter Claims That Only 1% to 4% Of Americans Do Not Like Their Health Care
I would really love to see the poll(s) that Coulter is referring to.
Coulter thinks that pollsters deliberately ask questions that are confusing and difficult to understand. She also believes that pollsters fudge the numbers to inflate the number of people who dislike their health care.
She then gives an example of one of the difficult and confusing questions:
Is health care a problem?
That does not seem too difficult of a question to me? But maybe it is for the intellectually challenged, Ann Coulter.
Coulter claims that polls show that only 1% to 4% of Americans dislike their health care. Even if that were true, it is a totally disingenuous statement, because her claim does not take into consideration the nearly 20% of Americans who are not covered at all.
Contrary to what Coulter claims, here are some of the recent questions and poll results regarding various aspects of the health care debate.
CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll: 7/31 – 8/3, 2009
Do you think it is or is not necessary to make major structural changes in the nation’s health care system in order to make sure that all Americans have health insurance?
- Necessary: 77%
- Not Necessary: 21%
Do you think it is or is not necessary to make major structural changes in the nation’s health care system in order to reduce health care costs?
- Necessary: 74%
- Not Necessary: 23%
Time Magazine Poll: 7/28-29, 2009
Overall, how would you rate the health care system in the United States: excellent, good, only fair, or poor?
- Excellent or Good: 42%
- Only Fair or Poor: 55%
How good a job are the private health insurance companies doing in providing health care coverage: excellent, good, only fair, or poor?
- Excellent or Good: 35%
- Only Fair or Poor: 60%
Would it be better to pretty much stay with the current health care system and just make some minor adjustments, or does the system need major reform?
- Minor Adjustments: 43%
- Major Reform: 55%
Pew Research Center Poll: 7/22-26, 2009
Would you favor or oppose a government health insurance plan to compete with private health insurance plans.
- Favor: 52%
- Oppose: 37%
Don’t worry Ann, you made this statement to the Glenn Beck audience. They don’t question anything.
August 9th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Coulter. Beck. Limbaugh. Hannity. Orielly. Levin.
…and THESE are the “greatest minds” that the 21st century have given us?
It’s a never ending list of (technically) “human beings” that make millions of dollars on the backs of “under, or uneducated” people…and the lack of critical thinking.
Critical Thinking?
Oh, please…not that. It might lead to careful and thoughtful reasoning involving discussions that might lead to SOLVING problems…instead of perpetuating them endlessly.
It is becoming clear: THAT will not happen in the current time of our Country.
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August 11th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
1% to 4% don’t like there health care.
New Stat,
99.8% to 99.9% of Americans think there is a faul stench coming from between Anne Coulters legs!!!!
And it isn’t Hannitys breath!!!
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