An interesting result from a new Gallup poll:
PRINCETON, NJ — More Americans now say it is not the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage (50%) than say it is (47%). This is a first since Gallup began tracking this question, and a significant shift from as recently as three years ago, when two-thirds said ensuring healthcare coverage was the government’s responsibility.
Gallup has asked this question each November since 2001 as part of the Gallup Poll Social Series, and most recently in its Nov. 5-8 Health and Healthcare survey. There have been some fluctuations from year to year, but this year marks the first time in the history of this trend that less than half of Americans say ensuring healthcare coverage for all is the federal government’s responsibility.
The high point for the “government responsibility” viewpoint occurred in 2006, when 69% of Americans agreed. In 2008, this percentage fell to 54%, its previous low reading. This year, in the midst of robust debate on a potentially imminent healthcare reform law, the percentage of Americans agreeing that it is the government’s responsibility to make sure everyone has health insurance has fallen even further, by seven points, to 47%. Half of Americans now say this is not the government’s responsibility.
The reason behind this shift is unknown.
Really ?
I think it’s pretty easy to figure out once you look at the trend:
Clearly, the more people have learned about a government-controlled health care system, the less they like it.
November 13th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I like government to control every aspect of my life. Gives me a reason to be lazy and unproductive.
November 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Maybe No Child Left Behind has finally borne fruit.
Naaaah! That couldn’t be it!
November 14th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Clearly? From a graph you can clearly derive a conclusion?
I think maybe as long as Bush was president, people were for National Health Care. Now that Obama is in office, people are wee weeing all over the place because they are afraid of a democratic black president. You can clearly derive that from that graph.
How about if the Gallup poll asks people why? No, that would clearly make too much sense.
The more I learn about National Health care from other countries who have implemented it, the more I am for it!
I’m not talking about the garbage spread by the wingnuts, I’m talking about the facts.