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Post on June 23, 2009 by 4 Comments »

Here’s is something for North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan to consider while she sits on the fence on President Obama’s health care reform proposals and remains troubled by the idea of giving consumers the option of buying into a public plan for health coverage.

The American people are not troubled by it all, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. They want a public plan. And it’s not even close.

Here’s the pertinent question.

Would you favor or oppose the government’s offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan like Medicare that would compete with private health insurance plans?

72 percent favored such a plan. 20 percent opposed it.

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  1. Mattwi
    June 23, 2009 at 8:16 am

    As an English person I can only say go for it. I don’t have any worries about my health, as the (british) National Health Service will treat me for everything except dental care, which I have to pay for, hence why Americans think we have bad teeth (stop laughing at the back there).

  2. James
    June 23, 2009 at 8:23 am

    Thanks.

  3. momoaizo
    June 23, 2009 at 8:29 am

    Mattwi,

    But the British health care system is what those against this measure hold up as an example of why we shouldn’t go for UHC or even the public option. Are you trying to say that it actually works?

  4. Adam Searing
    June 23, 2009 at 9:59 am

    As a landmark study published in JAMA several years ago found, the health – in multiple different areas – of people in Britain was significantly better than the health of Americans. The two most interesting things about the study were that: 1. the Brits were healthier even when you were comparing people with the highest incomes in each country and 2. to simplify the study and help control for outside factors, researchers compared groups of middle-aged white guys in each country.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16670412

    So, even wealthy people in the US with health insurance are doing worse on major health factors than their British counterparts. The British system certainly has its problems and I don’t think would be right for America, but it’s silly to say it doesn’t work for the English.