Author Topic: Health Care Summit: All For A Few Points In The Polls  (Read 1693 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2222/-127
Health Care Summit: All For A Few Points In The Polls
« on: February 25, 2010, 01:38:12 PM »
Quote
For all the angst and anger, and after all the billable hours and airtime, President Obama's health care summit comes down to this: moving the polls just enough to make a difference.

That's what the White House hopes to gain, and what the Republican opposition fears. It's why the Blair House event is happening and why the GOP did not feel it could pull a boycott.

Right now, the consensus of polling finds the legislation mired at less than 40 percent approval. And as long as that number is "under water," it's too large a lift for nervous Democrats and too fat a target for triumphant Republicans.

So getting something done depends on making that something at least a little more popular than what Congress coughed up in 2009. Gaining even a handful of percentage points in the polls, say 5 to 10, is crucial to prospects for a bill this year.

And gaudy double-digit increases in private health insurance premiums, like the 39-percent boost announced by Anthem Blue Cross in California, give the overhaulers a fresh way to press their case.
  NPR

It's NPR, so there are a few shots at the GOP.  Overall , it's truthful and I'll bet the MSM , water carriers for Obama will be out in full force claiming that Lord Zero schooled the Republicans.

Offline BEG

  • "Mile Marker"
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17277
  • Reputation: +1062/-301
Re: Health Care Summit: All For A Few Points In The Polls
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2010, 01:50:45 PM »
.



Damn, you can't see it.  Click on this link to view it better:  LINK

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2222/-127
Re: Health Care Summit: All For A Few Points In The Polls
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2010, 02:10:24 PM »
.



Damn, you can't see it.  Click on this link to view it better:  LINK

The only industry that has a lower profit percentage than the insurance industry is the American Auto industry.  :evillaugh:

Offline zeitgeist

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6195
  • Reputation: +391/-44
Re: Health Care Summit: All For A Few Points In The Polls
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2010, 03:01:15 PM »
Chicken Noodle News coverage $ucks.  It is streamed on line which may be a better option.  I rate the whole debacle "Bread and Circuses" or trolling for sound bites.  It reminds me of the gambler who keeps going double or nothing hoping to win. 
< watch this space for coming distractions >

Offline rich_t

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7942
  • Reputation: +386/-429
  • TANSTAAFL
Re: Health Care Summit: All For A Few Points In The Polls
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2010, 09:39:24 AM »
Chicken Noodle News coverage $ucks.  It is streamed on line which may be a better option.  I rate the whole debacle "Bread and Circuses" or trolling for sound bites.  It reminds me of the gambler who keeps going double or nothing hoping to win. 

That is exactly what it was IMO.  I watched some of it yesterday, and it was the "joke" I figured it would be.
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." --Norman Thomas, 1944