Poll: Most Say Health Care Fight About Politics, Not Policy

[Mari333]

Americans believe that both Republicans and Democrats were fighting about health care reform because of politics, not policy, a new CBS News poll finds.

Asked why Democrats worked to pass a health care bill, 57 percent said "mostly political reasons." Just 35 percent said it was because Democrats think the bill is good policy.

Americans had an even more cynical view of Republican motivations: Sixty-one percent said Republicans were acting on the basis of political concerns, while 29 percent said Republicans truly believed the bill was bad policy.

While partisans on both sides tended to think their party was acting out of policy concerns, independents were overwhelmingly likely to say that both parties were simply playing politics.









http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20000941-503544.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody


and I agree.

[sandnsea]

1. Americans believe the lying media again

*sigh*

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I've felt that this is true for quite some time. And not just on health care, either.

[ixion]

3. kicked and recommended

for a much needed wake up call.

[Echo In Light]

4. Accurate

[golddigger]

5. I totally agree.

[Mari333]

6. cannot blame the citizenry..why should they believe anything any of them say

[Mari333]

7. k

[leftstreet]

8. K&R

independents were overwhelmingly likely to say that both parties were simply playing politics.

But, but...I thought the independents were centrists?

:rofl:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. I'm with the majority and Mark Twain

"History has tried to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians.  Now, to go and stick one at the very head of government couldn’t be wise."

"When politics enter . . . government, nothing resulting there from in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible."

"In . . . politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."

"The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two."

"Right here in this heart and home and fountain-head of law, this great factory where are forged those rules that create good order and compel virtue and honesty in the other communities of the land, rascality achieves its highest perfection."

Mark Twain