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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-30-09 10:29 AM
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Poll: Public Says Voice Not Heard In Health Debate (hardly needed a freakin poll to tell us THIS)
Perhaps no other issue Congress deals with touches every American as intimately as health care. Yet a new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health finds that, so far, the public feels profoundly shut out of the current health overhaul debate.

"Most people don't feel that they personally have a voice in this debate," said Mollyann Brodie, director of public opinion and survey research for the Kaiser Family Foundation. "In fact, 71 percent told us that Congress was paying too little attention to what people like them were saying."

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113307616&sc=fb&cc=fp


Well DUH. THE ONLY "VOICES" THE WHORES IN GOV'T HEAR ARE THOSE OF THE FOR-PROFIT INSURANCE INDUSTRY THAT BOUGHT THEIR SUPPORT - TO THE EXCLUSION OF 'WE THE PEOPLE'! I think we could see that without a poll.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-30-09 10:30 AM
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1. Seventy-One Freaking Percent! 71!!!!!
Nice to know I'm finally with the majority on an issue.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-30-09 10:37 AM
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2. The teabaggers who support private insurance
probably said they aren't being heard either, as Obama pushes through his socialist health care takeover. Think about that when you scream about insurance whores.
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