{"id":6956,"date":"2006-03-25T10:49:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6956"},"modified":"2006-03-25T10:49:58","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T15:49:58","slug":"single-payer-grows-in-popularity-just-not-in-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/single-payer-grows-in-popularity-just-not-in-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Single payer grows in popularity, just not in name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get the sense that more Dem politicians would be willing to acknowledge the obvious benefits of a [tag]single-payer[\/tag] [tag]healthcare[\/tag] plan if they weren&#8217;t absolutely convinced that Americans would balk at the increased federal spending. After all, that&#8217;s what single-payer healthcare is &#8212; people get medical care, the government pays for it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m convinced Americans would embrace the idea if it were on the policy table. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angus-reid.com\/polls\/index.cfm\/fuseaction\/viewItem\/itemID\/11332\">Consider the polling data<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many adults in the United States believe their federal administration is not doing enough to help them with the cost of medical services, according to a poll by Princeton Survey Research Associates for the [tag]Pew Research Center[\/tag] for the People and the Press. 70 per cent of respondents think the government spends too little on health care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Asked if they thought the government spends too much, too little or the right amount on health care, it wasn&#8217;t even close &#8212; 70% of poll respondents said the government spends too little. Asked if they thought the average American spends too much, too little or the right amount on [tag]health care[\/tag], the results were nearly identical &#8212; 65% said people spend too much.<\/p>\n<p>Public opinion is already leaning towards single payer, whether they&#8217;re familiar with the phrase or not. Dems just need to start moving the conversation in this direction. The message will land on fertile soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get the sense that more Dem politicians would be willing to acknowledge the obvious benefits of a [tag]single-payer[\/tag] [tag]healthcare[\/tag] plan if they weren&#8217;t absolutely convinced that Americans would balk at the increased federal spending. After all, that&#8217;s what single-payer healthcare is &#8212; people get medical care, the government pays for it. I&#8217;m convinced Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}