Opposition to Health Care Reform Dwindles

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.afscmeblog.org/2010/07/30/opposition-to-health-care-reform-dwindles/?__utma=1.1847225545.1261531521.1276721935.1276731138.86&__utmb=1.1.10.1280709577&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1275745986.79.4.utmcsr=google|utmccn=%28organic%29|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=AFSCME%20member%20deaths%20on%209-11&__utmv=-&__utmk=63773103

July 30th, 2010

A new poll out Thursday from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that a consistent 50 percent of the public supports the health care reform law passed this year while opposition to the law is down to just 35 percent this month.

It’s great news that more people are coming to understand how they, their families and the nation will benefit from health care reform.



Views on Health Reform Law: Over Time (Kaiser Family Foundation)

Unfortunately, the poll showed that Americans, especially senior citizens, continue to have an incomplete understanding of what the health care overhaul means to them. Half of seniors know that health care reform will gradually close the Medicare donut hole that leaves many without coverage for their prescription drugs. Only a third understand that reform will eliminate Medicare’s co-pays and deductibles for some preventive services.

Worst of all, according to the poll, more than a third of senior citizens (36 percent) wrongly think that health care reform will “allow a government panel to make decisions about end-of-life care for people on Medicare.” Those misunderstandings are due, in part, to a misinformation campaign by opponents of reform.

AFSCME is educating its members and the public about the positive impact that the health care overhaul will have on skyrocketing costs and reining in insurance company abuses. We have created an online education program and a series of materials to show how the new reforms in health care will affect Americans in every walk of life.

AFSCME members worked hard to make health care reform the law of the land. We’re dedicated to helping our members and the public understand how positive reform will be for their lives.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Thank you, Steve. Good news, indeed.

[applegrove]

2. Woohoo!

:woohoo:

[w8liftinglady]

3. I see the ones who needed it...teens who should have had an infection looked at

-young guys with malignant hypertension
-woman who's UTI became a pyelonephritis because of delay in treatment.
-wound infection from a guy who dropped a spike on his foot...went back to work-didn't tell bossman,because it might have gotten his ass fired...cellulitis with extensive infection to rt lower leg...required iv antibiotics...guy freaking out due to having to miss work...only stayed one day.
I could go on...and on...and on...the asthmas,hypertensions,cancers,stomach problems,sexual problems...the list goes on.

[eridani]

4. Most people will never get expensively sick.; 50% of all health care costs

--are incurred by 5% of the population, and 15% of the population accounts for 85% of costs. If you don't get sick, you aren't going to see mucch change.

[scheming daemons]

5. So? The point is to take care of those that DO get sick...

That's what a humane social order is all about.

[eridani]

6. HCR is about taking care of only some of them, unfortunately

What it means for me is that if I give up my doctor, the government will give my former employer money. Fuck that.

[BzaDem]

7. Because of course taking care of MORE than we did before (but not all) is worse than before.

In other news, up is down and war is peace.

[eridani]

8. The people who are left out are PISSED. Capeesh? n/t