59% of Americans Want National Health Insurance

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From a recent CBS/NYT poll:

HEALTH INSURANCE: PRIVATE ENTERPRISE VS. GOVERNMENT?

CBS/NYT Now

CBS/NYT 1/1979

Private enterprise

32%

48%

Government – all problems

49

28

Government – emergencies

10

12

Don’t know

9

12

Are Democrats listening? This represents a 37% swing in opinion on an item that Americans routinely put at the top of the list of priorities for the government to fix. National health insurance has multiple faces, so it is a mistake to think that this question indicates support for any one idea — but it is pretty safe to say that people no longer think that private insurance is doing what it should.

Another interesting item from this poll:

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Probability Table For Mike Castle’s Future

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There are only a few things that can happen and not many variables to contend with, so it is easy to build a probability table for the outcomes regarding Mike Castle.

Then we can quibble over the probability of each outcome, but the short version is there is only a slim chance that Mike Castle will be in elected office after the next election. A 20% chance to be exact.