Mon Jan 17, 2011 at 07:30:03 AM PST
Following quickly on the heels of a Marist poll that found that more respondents want to see the health reform law expanded than repealed, AP/GfK reports:

The poll finds that 40 percent of those surveyed said they support the law, while 41 percent oppose it. Just after the November congressional elections, opposition stood at 47 percent and support was 38 percent.

As for repeal, only about one in four say they want to do away with the law completely. Among Republicans support for repeal has dropped sharply, from 61 percent after the elections to 49 percent now.

Also, 43 percent say they want the law changed so it does more to re-engineer the health care system. Fewer than one in five say it should be left as it is.

Once again, a good portion of the opposition to the law stems from it not doing enough to change our healthcare system. If any politicians actually paid attention to polls and voters rather than lobbyists, this would be very good news for policy. As it is, it makes the GOP's repeal vote this week--and their stubbornly holding onto the ridiculous title of it, "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act"--more crass and politicized than even before. But since this is kabuki for the GOP to fulfill a promise to the teabaggers, the driving force of the Republican Party, that's as much as we can expect.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/1/17/936833/-AP-GfK-poll:-Support-for-expanding-health-reform-stronger-than-for-repeal

Nationalized health care is way past due in the US. All of the other civilized countries in the world have had it for years.

A steaming load. The author deliberately skews stats, viz.-

" The poll finds that 40 percent of those surveyed said they support the law, while 41 percent oppose it. Just after the November congressional elections, opposition stood at 47 percent and support was 38 percent.

As for repeal, only about one in four say they want to do away with the law completely. Among Republicans support for repeal has dropped sharply, from 61 percent after the elections to 49 percent now.

Also, 43 percent say they want the law changed so it does more to re-engineer the health care system. Fewer than one in five say it should be left as it is."

Here, they are citing fractions of fractions of narrow demographics. They don't even cite the exact question posed by the pollster. It's a joke, like typical MSM polls and articles that spin them.

It is quite clear to any honest person right or left! One thing history and everyone in America knows is "take a good idea and allow politicians to manage it and it will be a failure!" This is why Americans are against nationalized healthcare even if this bogus poll has been skewed to say otherwise!

Social security, education, unemployment, police, fire, prisons, defense......the list goes on and on! Some in the list you can argue are the best in the world such as defense.....but what you can't argue is they are ran with fiscal responsability! So now you want 1/6 of the total GDP to be ran by Government? No one is buying this but the extreme left because they are the ones on the rolls and not flipping the bill! This is the infighting within the democrat party, this is the outrage from the right! This is why Obama is a one termer and why the conservatives slaughtered the left in 2010 and handed them the largest loss in 70 years! Go extreme left you are gonna bring true reform to this country by highjacking the democratic party and taking the last of any credibility the democrats have left! As long as the extreme left beleives there own rhetoric the right wins the middle! Go Obama! I appreciate your movement! You helped us purge the rino's! You helped us take back the local governments! Keep pushing your ridiculous idealology and the right will take complete control in 2012 and then we can shut this government down and repeal decades of democrat idealology! Shut down the IRS! Shut down public education! abolish social security! lol....like that will happen, well maybe we can at least burry the freeloaders in red tape!