Thursday, August 19, 2010

AP: “Overhaul Fails to Boost Health Care Confidence”

The Associated Press is out this morning with a story previewing today’s release of a monthly survey of health care confidence by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  The survey is expected to report a drop in health care confidence by the American people – the fourth straight month of such declines.  The story notes that “confidence levels have…fallen back to what they were last year at the beginning of an epic congressional debate,” which is “another sign of ambivalence” over Democrats’ unpopular health care law.

“The ho-hum attitude may be due to the fact that the law’s major benefits don’t take effect until 2014, and most people’s views are shaped by current experiences.”  In other words, the American people realize they are going to pay higher premiums – as yesterday’s survey by the National Business Group on Health showed – for benefits that won’t take effect for another three and a half years, and won’t help the majority of Americans at all.  Is it any wonder that confidence in Democrats’ government takeover of health care is on the wane?