{"id":409226,"date":"2010-03-09T10:59:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=33334"},"modified":"2010-03-09T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:59:34","slug":"majority-of-americans-oppose-government-health-care-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/409226","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Americans Oppose Government Health Care Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Doug Bandow<\/p>\n<p>Will Congress listen to the people?&nbsp; According to Rasmussen Reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As President Obama and his congressional allies search for a way to pass their proposed health care plan, most voters remain opposed to the legislative effort.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 42% favor the plan while 53% are opposed. These figures include just 20% who Strongly Favor the plan and 41% who are Strongly Opposed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/healthcare\/march_2010\/44_favor_health_care_plan_52_oppose\" >Last week,<\/a><strong> <\/strong>support for the health care plan inched up to 44% following the president&#8217;s televised health care summit. However, that mild bounce has faded, and support is back to where it was for months. With the exception of last week&#8217;s results, overall support for the president&#8217;s health care plan has stayed in a very narrow range from 38% to 42% since Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>As has been the case for months, Democrats overwhelmingly favor the plan, and Republicans are overwhelmingly opposed. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 32% favor the plan, and 64% are opposed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Doug Bandow, American Conservative Defense Alliance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Doug Bandow Will Congress listen to the people?&nbsp; According to Rasmussen Reports: As President Obama and his congressional allies search for a way to pass their proposed health care plan, most voters remain opposed to the legislative effort. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 42% favor the plan while 53% are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409226","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\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}