31 Oct 07 75% of Americans don’t support National Health Care System

As a little experiment I posted two similar questions on a popular survey site.  The first question was “Do you support our government developing a national health care plan?”  The answer to this question was a significant 66% supporting a national health care plan.  You need to keep in mind that liberals on this site outnumber conservatives significantly.  The second question was as one commenter put “a loaded question”.  I decided to describe the National Health Care program in as blunt of terms as possible.  It read “Do you really think we should threaten the rich with jail time if they don’t pay my medical bills?” Yes, I know that this flies in the face of being fair in a survey.  But it is an accurate depiction of what a national socialized medicine program would be.  The rich which pay 90% of the taxes collected in this country would have to pay for the medical bills of about half of all Americans that pay little to no federal income tax.  It’s not surprising based on the question that 75% did not support the second question.  This raises the question, how many government programs would we support if we took the sugar coating of and looked at what we were really doing?