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<\/p>\nA new Washington Post poll apparently shows that people want Congress to keep looking for a way to pass comprehensive health care reform. The graphic is rather striking:<\/p>\n
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This does not mean that the public wants Congress to pass any of the So will Congress keep searching for this miracle Update: Yup<\/a>, they may want Congress to move forward, but not on the plans currently on the table. A new Washington Post poll apparently shows that people want Congress to keep looking for a way to pass comprehensive health care reform. The graphic is rather striking: This does not mean that the public wants Congress to pass any of the current bills, though we don’t know yet, since the Post seems to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncurrent bills, though we don’t know yet, since the Post seems to be
\ndribbling out the numbers over a few days. But I’ll be surprised if
\nthey get more “ayes” than “nays” on passing HCR in its current form,
\nwhich hasn’t happened<\/a>
\nsince Kaiser got a 42% favorable a month ago. No, I’m betting that
\nwhat the public, God bless ’em, really wants is for Congress to go back
\nand find a fairy bill that covers a bunch of people, doesn’t cost
\nanything, offends no popular special interests, and generates broad
\nbipartisan support. While they’re at it, I want a pony. And a sous
\nvide machine.<\/p>\n
\npiece of legislation? That depends, I think, on how strong this
\npreference is to have them “keep on truckin’ ” on a health care bill.
\nAs I’ve observed a zillion times, almost everything polls well in
\nisolation. Of course the public wants Congress to try to clean up the
\nuglier bits of our health care system. But does the public want
\nCongress to use its finite energy on creating a new health care bill more<\/i>
\nthan it wants that same legislative effort expended on jobs, banking
\nregulation, or the economy? All the other polls I’ve read say “no”.<\/p>\n
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