AARP Poll Shows Big Majority Want Government Health Care
August 26th, 200986 Percent Want Universal Coverage
79 Percent Want Government Option
Despite the carefully contrived optics — the cell-phone videos of deranged Tea-Baggers, Birthers and Deathers disrupting town hall meetings; the armed “right wing terrorists” posing menacingly outside the meeting halls; and signs depicting Pres. Obama as Hitler — and in spite of Republican propaganda about death panels and the rest, a new poll finds that huge majorities of American voters of all ages* remain solidly behind the Democrats’ two primary goals for health-insurance reform: insuring everyone and offering the public access to the same coverage available to elected officials, federal employees, the military and veterans:
Nearly 8 in 10 Americans support a federal health insurance plan for those who can’t afford or can’t get private insurance, but only 37 percent define “public option” correctly, a new national poll found.
The majority of people polled — 86 percent — say insurance should be available to everyone regardless of health history, and 79 percent say they believe a federal government health insurance option should be available for people to buy.
The survey was paid for by AARP but the survey group of 1,000 Democratic, Republican and independent voters was not limited to AARP members. The age range of those polled was 61 percent 49 years old and younger, and 39 percent 50 years old and older.
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