It’s been a rough week for healthcare reform, but Ezra Klein points to a recent Wall Street Journal poll that has a smidgen of good news:
Luckily, there are some elements of health reform that meet with overwhelming public approval. Among them is the public plan. According to the poll, 76 percent of Americans believe it’s either “extremely important” or “quite important” to “give people a choice of both a public plan administered by the federal government and a private plan for their health insurance.”
Hmmm. A crisp new twenty dollar bill says this poll result is meaningless. My guess is that (a) the vast majority of these respondents have no real idea what this even means and (b) would change their mind in an eyeblink if they saw even a single 30-second attack ad on the subject.
On the other hand, maybe I’m just cranky this morning. In fact, I am cranky this morning. But twenty bucks still says I’m right about this.
