…please keep in mind that the public is composed of idiots. For example, in last January’s poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health, 67% of those polled said they favored “requiring all Americans to have health insurance with help for those who cannot afford it.”

Try to digest that: 67% want to force all Americans to have health insurance, whether they want it or not.

But wait. What if you remind them that it has consequences? Well, then this happens (taken from the Kaiser report):

Yeah, now 78% oppose it. But what were they thinking the first time when they said they favored it? That requiring people to have health insurance meant you could still opt out? Hunh?

Not convinced? Here’s another beauty.

66% of the pollees said that would like to:

establish a new independent federal scientific body which would decide whether approved new medical technology, procedures, and drugs should be covered by insurance, based on whether they are proven to be more effective than existing, less expensive treatments.

That’s 2/3 of Americans who would like a federal body to override your doctor’s decisions and force your treatment to conform to a one-size-fits-all set of standards. As before, look what happens when you point out the issues (taken from the Kaiser report):

Like they didn’t think about that before they answered the first time? No, they didn’t. Which tells you that whenever people mention polling data which purports to show public support for some reform measure, you can bet that those numbers are inflated due to the way the questions were asked.

It also means that it’s time to get the message out, so that people remember that there are two sides to every issue, even if the MSM only mentions one.

We’ve got to get them off their ideological moebius strips.