72 Percent Favor Health Equality, 20 Percent Continue to Fear.

        72 percent of people in this country support a Public Health Insurance option.  20 percent oppose that option.  Kevin Sack and Marjorie Connelly, "In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health" (New York Times Online, Sunday, June 21, 2009).  The reasons for this difference highlight many interesting things.

    It seems that 20 percent or so ruled this country for the past 8 years.  It is an article of faith among the 20 percent that no-one want to pay taxes, for anything.

    It is also an article of faith among them that the Federal Government is a failure, not Wall Street or private corporations.

    Neither of these shibboleths is shared by the 72 percent of the people  who favor a Public Health Insurance Option.

    The 72 percent are wiliing to pay higher taxes if it means that all the people in this country can have Health Insurance.  This overwhelming, under-reported majority also put their faith more in the Federal Government than in private industry, at least when it comes to Health Insurance.  This is what they place their faith in, the 72 percent of people who support a Public Health Insurance option:

    The poll found that most Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes so everyone could have health insurance and that they said the government could do a better job of holding down health-care costs than the private sector. 

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    The 20 percent can still mostly have their way, even when there is a Public Health Insurance option, and it is an easy solution.  The 20 percent must decline to participate in Public Health Insurance for themselves and their families.  This should also be the rule followed in good conscience by those members of congress who vote against a Public Health Insurance option yet continue to take the benefits of their Congressional Health Insurance Program -- which of course is run by the Federal Government.  This will reduce taxes.  And it will be consistent with their words. The 20 percent and their followers can thereby feel better about themselves, and so can the rest of the people.

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