<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br>Sent from </div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>Subject:</b> <b>[SPHC] Fwd: qotd: Americans say that health care coverage is the responsibility of the federal government</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>From: Don McCanne <<a href="mailto:don@mccanne.org">don@mccanne.org</a>></span><br><span>To: Quote-of-the-Day <<a href="mailto:quote-of-the-day@mccanne.org">quote-of-the-day@mccanne.org</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span>The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs ResearchJuly 13-17,</span><br><span>2017</span><br><span>Americans’ Views on Replacing the ACA</span><br><span>Q44. Is it the responsibility of the federal government to make sure that</span><br><span>all Americans have health care coverage, or not?</span><br><span>March 201752% Yes, a federal government responsibility47% No, not a</span><br><span>federal government responsibility</span><br><span>July 201762% Yes, a federal government responsibility37% No, not a</span><br><span>federal government responsibility</span><br><span><a href="http://apnorc.org/PDFs/July%202017%20Health%20Care/July%20Omnibus%20Topline_FINAL.pdf">http://apnorc.org/PDFs/July%202017%20Health%20Care/July%20Omnibus%20Topline_FINAL.pdf</a></span><br><span>[1]</span><br><span>===</span><br><span></span><br><span>Comment by Don McCanne</span><br><span>In only four months support of the view that it is the responsibility of</span><br><span>the federal government to make sure that all Americans have health care</span><br><span>coverage has gone from a 5 percentage point spread to a 25 point spread.</span><br><span>The Republicans want to take credit for health care reform, and they</span><br><span>actually may be able to take credit for this shift in opinion, even though</span><br><span>it is in the opposite direction of their passionate support for further</span><br><span>privatization of health care financing.</span><br><span>The years of unrelenting criticism of Obamacare by the Republicans along</span><br><span>with the recognition that too many people are facing problems with</span><br><span>affordability and access led to the concerns about the adequacy of the</span><br><span>Affordable Care Act. In calling for repeal, the Republicans promised that</span><br><span>they would replace Obamacare with a much better program, presumably</span><br><span>bringing improved access at lower costs.</span><br><span>But then what happened this year now that Republicans have control of the</span><br><span>House, Senate and the White house and can act on their promises? They</span><br><span>tried</span><br><span>to hide their actual policy positions behind closed doors shielded with</span><br><span>false rhetoric. They were exposed when it became clear to all that their</span><br><span>bucket of promises was empty.</span><br><span>It took only four months for Americans to realize that Bernie Sanders and</span><br><span>all of the other Medicare-for-all advocates were right. The private sector</span><br><span>can’t deliver, and the Republicans proved it. We need the federal</span><br><span>government to take the responsibility of seeing that all Americans have</span><br><span>health care.</span><br><span>It is our job to make sure that this American epiphany does not fade.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Links:</span><br><span>------</span><br><span>[1]</span><br><span><a href="http://apnorc.org/PDFs/July%202017%20Health%20Care/July%20Omnibus%20Topline_FINAL.pdf">http://apnorc.org/PDFs/July%202017%20Health%20Care/July%20Omnibus%20Topline_FINAL.pdf</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>To unsubscribe from this list send an email to <a href="mailto:sphc-leave@lists.mcn.org">sphc-leave@lists.mcn.org</a></span><br><span>and fully respond to reply.</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>