Gallup health care poll: Americans put faith in insurance companies over GOP
By on Jun 17th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Gallup health care poll: Americans put faith in insurance companies over GOP
Today, House Republicans offered a substance-less alternative to the Democrats’ health care plan. The GOP “plan” comes on the same day that Gallup releases new numbers showing the GOP ranks last when it comes to who the public thinks would get health care reform right. Only 34% of Americans are confident that Republicans in Congress will make the correct decisions, which is less than the insurance companies (35%) and the pharmaceutical companies (40%). The public’s faith in President Obama comes in at 58%, while confidence in Democratic leaders in Congress is at 42%:
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Didn’t they learn from their number-free ‘budget’?
June 17th, 2009 at 4:17 pmWhere’s Michelle Bachmann when you need her…she can fix it /snark off
June 17th, 2009 at 4:19 pmHa! No surprises there but still brings a smile to my face.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:20 pmHouse Republicans presented a four-page outline of their health care reform plan Wednesday but said they didn’t know yet how much it would cost, how they would pay for it and how many of the nearly 50 million Americans without insurance would be covered by it.
And that’s “different” , how ?
Where exactly is the “reform” there ?
June 17th, 2009 at 4:21 pmToo bad they didn’t ask about old SamJoe the “regular” American. I would have liked to see his numbers….
June 17th, 2009 at 4:24 pmWeren’t the Republicans flipping out last year that SCHIP could be used to cover dependants up to 23 that were still in college? What happened to their rallying cry of personal responsibility?
June 17th, 2009 at 4:24 pmRead ALTERNET today!!!!
This is of very importance. It is one thing which is missing in TP since ObaOba took office…
Shame: The ‘Anti-War’ Democrats Who Sold Out
ALTERNET
June 17th, 2009 at 4:26 pm34% for Republicans — that high?
June 17th, 2009 at 4:28 pmsacopenapa Says:
Read ALTERNET today!!!!
This is of very importance. It is one thing which is missing in TP since ObaOba took office…
Shame: The ‘Anti-War’ Democrats Who Sold Out
ALTERNET
June 17th, 2009 at 4:30 pm==========
yawn…..
Republicans are trusted less than insurance salesmen?
or is that too far a reach.
But there is one shortcoming in the poll – it didn’t ask the confidence level people put in the defacto head of the Republican Party to fix health care: Rush Limbaugh.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:31 pmThe Republican plan is basically to let the insurance companies do whatever they want. The people polled, apparently, believe that they wouldn’t even be able to do that with any competence.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:35 pmWhen your party falls below Big Pharma and Big Healthcare, two of the most hated industries in the nation behind only the financial sector and Big Oil, you know it’s time to pull up stakes and move that Big Tent somewhere else. Really, anywhere else.
PEACE
June 17th, 2009 at 4:35 pm“Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Of This and That endeavor and dispute;
__Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter, fruit.”
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June 17th, 2009 at 4:36 pm@ Zooey
34% for Republicans — that high?
I think that is pretty accurate. Remember, there are a lot of people that have employer provided insurance and are worried that a public plan will not be as good or would be more expensive without their employer helping to subsidize it. So even if they are not Republicans, they still don’t want a change to their health insurance.
That leaves out all of the people that don’t have insurance or, like me, pay for a private plan and have to bear the total cost myself. We would welcome a public plan, assuming that it is good coverage at a reasonable cost
June 17th, 2009 at 4:37 pmHey anu69
106 billion dollars for War funding.
Half of it is borrowed…
Keep yawning!
June 17th, 2009 at 4:37 pmAnd if you look at the people driving the healthcare plan in Congress it starts at the low end and goes uphill.
Wonder why that is?
June 17th, 2009 at 4:39 pm6 out of 10 doctors back public health insurance.
[From what I gather]
The AMA does not.
So the doctors, listed above at 73% confident, is somewhat confusing to me.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:42 pmIf Senator Conrad succeeds in watering down the public option, the Democrats who support a viable public option should vote against the legislation.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:44 pmLefty Liberal Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Thanks, Lefty. That makes sense. :)
I’d sign up for a decent public option in a heartbeat. All I have is Student Health (aka Student Death).
June 17th, 2009 at 4:49 pmHAHA! I am not surprised that the Republican leaders have the lowest percentage! Worse, they’re ranked after the health insurance and pharmaceutical companies!
Most people know that the Rethuglicans don’t give a crap about Americans having affordable health insurance. To most Rethugs having good health insurance is a privilege and not a right.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:50 pmInteresting that “doctors” ranks highest on the list — at the same time that the AMA and their mouthpieces claim to represent “all doctors” when protesting a public plan.
I don’t know if the term “doctors” was qualified in any way by Gallup at the time of the polling, but if it wasn’t, I’d guess that people had their own doctor in mind more often than the AMA when giving their response.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:50 pmThose 34% sure are a uninformed bunch of morons, who in their right mind would think that a GNOPER has America’s best interest at heart.
GNOPER values = money from Insurance Co.
GNOPER values = money from corporations
GNOPER values = money from big pharma
They could give a ratsass about Americans.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:51 pmSee “The U.S. health care policy morass” now nearing completion.
On “employment-based coverage” Obama weakly calls our “tradition,” my Dad worked for one employer his entire adult life ’til retirement after mustering out of the WWII military. I have worked for about seven to date, and, during my last two-year stint prior to getting laid off, my employer changed benefit providers THREE times. New plans, new details, new paperwork. Just a waste of paper shuffling.
I am dubious that we’re gonna get much beyond more intermediary deck-chair rearranging.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:54 pmWhat happened to 80%, obama? Dropping like a lead ballon…..
June 17th, 2009 at 4:54 pmNow, Guido, we can be civil. And once public insurance is in place we won’t even have to feel guilty when they choke on it.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:55 pmAmerican Patriot Says:
What happened to 80%, obama? Dropping like a lead ballon…..
Happens when people don’t blindly follow over the cliff.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:56 pmLet’s just make sure we do it right and don’t stop innovation and growth. I don’t people realize how good we have it… we have family members in Canada that can’t get an MRI for a year. Don’t listen to Michael Moore and take that as 100% truth, you can always believe what you watch.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:58 pmTrolls just don’t get it. The wave is for change and if there are people who think the President is waiting for the next one, it doesn’t change the wave. Our President isn’t perfect for everyone and we have no problem saying ‘buddy, you called the tune, best start dancing.’
June 17th, 2009 at 4:59 pmAmerican Dumbass – Approval ratings and faith in Health reform are two different things, but you are too stupid to understand that…idiot.
June 17th, 2009 at 5:00 pmI think the Mexican Drug Cartel healthcare plan comes in ahead of the GOP.
Republitards!
June 17th, 2009 at 5:04 pmAmerican Patriot Says:
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What happened to 80%, obama? Dropping like a lead ballon…..
June 17th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
What level are your beloved Republicans at , tool ?
You need a bathysphere or bathyscaphe to view those numbers ……
June 17th, 2009 at 5:08 pmHi American Patriot:
June 17th, 2009 at 5:10 pmGuess what? A white homegrown just standed a dude to death two towns away from me. Shall I copy and paste the details?
See ya soon…
er ah stabbed
June 17th, 2009 at 5:10 pmYou need a bathysphere or bathyscaphe to view those numbers ……
–Or more likely one of those very few titanium hulled rigs like Alvin…
June 17th, 2009 at 5:11 pmDid anyone see the clown Kantor trying to explain how his health plan isn’t really a government plan? This guy must think everyone is as dumb as AmericanPee.
June 17th, 2009 at 5:15 pmWhen your ratings are this low, you are essentially hated.
Most people hate Big Pharma and most people hate health insurance companies but more people hate Republicans than either of them.
I guess when you adopt fascism as your political ideology and spam radio and cable with propaganda, and openly practice bigotry, you end up hated.
June 17th, 2009 at 5:19 pmAny person who responded that they had confidence in “Hospitals”(for profit ones anyway), “Pharma Companies”, “Health Insurers” or “Republicans” either didn’t understand the question, doesn’t understand the problem or needs to go to the bait shop for extraction of the maggots that are eating their brain.
June 17th, 2009 at 5:25 pmUnAmerican Traitor says,
June 17th, 2009 at 5:26 pmI am curious, what was BushW’s approval rating six months into the first year of his first term as president?
New Name? Cute…
June 17th, 2009 at 5:29 pmLevi the Dungbeetle Says:
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UnAmerican Traitor says,
What happened to 80%, obama? Dropping like a lead ballon…..
I am curious, what was BushW’s approval rating six months into the first year of his first term as president?
June 17th, 2009 at 5:33 pm=======================================================
He was at 53% at the same time in 2001.
Sorry that’s an old name being recycled. How green of you…
June 17th, 2009 at 5:35 pmSanto, who the f**k are you? I don’t remember talking to you. Just another rightwing tough guy huh? Oh well, I guess that was the best you could do with the limited brain power you have.
June 17th, 2009 at 5:40 pmangels81:
June 17th, 2009 at 5:43 pmThat would be the resident toll of oh so many mans. Just pwn it and move on…
Damn am I having spelling issues. I suppose I should get off the phone. That ought to be tool and names
June 17th, 2009 at 5:43 pmangel, santo has problems with English. I think it is about his fourth language. He is equally conversant in the other three though.
June 17th, 2009 at 5:46 pmI think Obama’s current approval rating is around 64%, so he is considerably more popular than BushW was.
Obama’s ratings have begun to decline, probably because Bush and Cheney aren’t in prison for war crimes, but I could be wrong.
Obama is enjoying solid support simply because the fascist Republican Party is attacking him on all fronts. As many as 75% of Americans have rejected everything Republican so Obama is the enemy of our enemy, if not our friend.
June 17th, 2009 at 5:48 pm“Democratic” leader in Congress only get 8 more percent than Rpublicans? Someone was being generous.
June 17th, 2009 at 6:04 pmhomepage Says:
Let’s just make sure we do it right and don’t stop innovation and growth. I don’t people realize how good we have it… we have family members in Canada that can’t get an MRI for a year. Don’t listen to Michael Moore and take that as 100% truth, you can always believe what you watch.
Blah Blah Blahl…….well I have relatives in Windsor, Ontario that laugh at the US health care system…The love their system, aren’t afraid to change jobs for fear of losing care and go to the dr.s whenever they need to. You are just parroting the frank luntz GOP talking points of fear. People aren’t as stupid as you think….they have the web to check facts.
June 17th, 2009 at 6:22 pmQuestion not asked but should have been asked…Do you think the American people want to put a rethuglican between them and their doctors’??
June 17th, 2009 at 6:42 pmAmazing that people think the R’s would do even worse than the people they work for.
The general public believes that Republicans can’t even competently support the constituents/industries that they support. It’s not just a question of them supporting the wrong constituents/industries, it’s now just a question of them not being even able to do that job right. This rises the question – why are they even a party any more? Whether or not you agree that their aims are correct, there isn’t even any confidence that they could do the job of implementing them. That’s just plain sad.
Insurance companies? Evil. Republicans? Evil and incompetent.
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deebaser Says:
Didn’t they learn from their number-free ‘budget’?
You know what would be funny? If they reintroduced the McCain “insurance plan” that completely demolishes employer-based insurance and replaces it with a tax credit in a complete free-for-all system, while still allowing insurance companies to refuse people for pre-existing conditions. That’d be hy-larious.
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sacopenapa Says:
Read ALTERNET today!!!!
No thanks, blogspammer. If there’s something there that’s relevant, cite the link, provide the relevant portion of text, and discuss how it applies. The comment thread isn’t a voting system for which items TP should display.
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misscoleopteramolly Says:
Interesting that “doctors” ranks highest on the list — at the same time that the AMA and their mouthpieces claim to represent “all doctors” when protesting a public plan.
We need to break up that point of confusion. Unless they step entirely out of it, the AMA is pretty much just an insurance/pharma marketing scheme.
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American Patriot Says:
What happened to 80%, obama? Dropping like a lead ballon…..
This poll isn’t his favorability rating, you poor confused little wingnut. His favorability rating is here, currently at 72%.
Seriously, if you get the basic facts that you’re posting about flat wrong, then you make your side look just plain stupid. If I was a conservative, I’d have to tell you you’re not helping. Since I’m not… carry on.
June 17th, 2009 at 7:05 pmAmerican Parrot
Kill yourself
June 17th, 2009 at 7:46 pmranus69 Says:
sacopenapa Says:
Read ALTERNET today!!!!
This is of very importance. It is one thing which is missing in TP since ObaOba took office…
Shame: The ‘Anti-War’ Democrats Who Sold Out
ALTERNET
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yawn…..
All saco knows how to do is whine. No use even yawning anymore :(
June 17th, 2009 at 9:13 pmThis is just stupid. Thinking that doctors and other health professionals could improve the health care system better then others is ridiculous. They are in the pockets of the insurance and drug companies. Why would they want to limit their money for the sake of the people?
June 18th, 2009 at 10:35 amlvdragonlady Says:
This is just stupid. Thinking that doctors and other health professionals could improve the health care system better then others is ridiculous.
The point isn’t that the pharma/insurance companies scored well in the poll (they didn’t), the point is that the GOP scored even worse.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:36 amThis site used to be ANTI WAR when Bush was occupying the WH… now, very sadly, it became ObaOba ‘change that you can believe in’ band wagon. No matter if Oba Oba/ Babaca Obama/ the New War President/ Barky, is keeping and escalating many of Bush’s criminal policies…
June 18th, 2009 at 3:41 pm