USA reports three-quarters of Americans back a public option in health care. This is in line with what was found since 2003.
NBC News and the The Wall Street Journal didn’t include the public option in their August polling, Jonathan Singer reports in My Direct Democracy. SurveyUSA decided to do so in order to determine how Americans continue to feel about the public option. What they found in asking the very question NBC and The Journal had used in June was when people are given the public health care option as a possibility, a significant majority consider it to be extremely important. These are the results found . Parentheses reflect June results from the NBC/Wall Street Journal survey:...
I urge you to make it absolutely clear to everyone you know, everyone who cares about universal health care and what it will mean to our country, that the bill must contain a real public option. Tell that to your representatives in Congress. Tell that to the White House. If you are receiving piles of emails from the Obama email system asking you to click in favor of health care, do not do so unless or until you know it has a clear public option. Do not send money unless or until the White House makes clear its support for a public option.
This isn’t just Obama’s test.
It’s our test.
Robert Reich
