More Americans believe in UFOs (34%) than oppose a public option (26%)
As health insurance reform makes its way through congress, it's easy to observe the partisan fighting in Washington and believe the country is deeply divided over a "public option."
Luckily, that is not the case. Americans love choices. They want the opportunity to choose to purchase a public health insurance plan.
A recent New York Times/CBS News poll found that 65% favored a public option, with only 26% opposed to it.
To put that number in perspective: a 2007 Associated Press/Ipsos poll found that 34% of Americans believe in UFOs.
It speaks volumes about the status of the health care debate among the public when it is more mainstream to believe aliens are flying around in spaceships than to oppose the public option.
Public Option Amendments Fail In Senate Finance Committee
A coalition of Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee joined together Tuesday to defeat a public health insurance option.
Five Democrats joined with all the Republicans on the committee to reject an amendment by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) in a 15-8 vote.
Three Democrats then joined the Republicans to defeat a second public-option proposal. By a vote of 13-10, the committee rejected an amendment by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).
Schumer, however, said the debate is far from over. He acknowledged during the debate that the public option doesn't yet have the 60 votes on the Senate floor it needs to overcome a filibuster, but he emphasized to Huffington Post outside the hearing room: "Yet. I said 'yet.'"
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