53% is somehow an Obama "mandate", but 54% is meaningless?

ParaTed2k, The backlash from this plan is growing. Voters don't trust BO anymore.We already have examples of gov healthcare failure in this country. Medicare and Medicaid, BANKRUPT. VA rations care with long waiting periods for tests.

My, My where was all of you critics when George Bush was in office??? Now that is something to laugh about. In terms of health care......you nay sayers can not make up your minds about who or what you support or oppose. If Barack Obama were to blow his nose out of the left nostril there would be a myLot forum aobut it. Seriously, there was a forum about him killing a freakin fly. What do you really oppose? Tax paying, hard working American citizens dying becasue they can not afford the simplist of healthcare? Things like Antibiotics, blood pressure tests, diabetes glucose testing, gynological care, critical testing that could save someone's life. Is that what you oppose? Some of you have lost your jobs and know what it's like to be unemployed without healthcare....what would you tell your child if she or he were sick? No honey, we will NOT take you to the Dr because the BIG BAD GOVT will be sponsoring your care????? If you say Yes, you are a LIE! You never know what tomorrow brings. Some of you found yourselves in the unemployment line for the first time this past year.......some of you found yourselves at the local food bank accepting a donation for the first time.....Americans need help!!! Where was the opposition when Wall Street was driving this country into the ground for GREED? Where was the opposition when little old ladies were finding out that their live savings was GONE because they attempted to grab their piece of the Capitalist American Dream? What do you say to them? Think before you answer, you never know what tomorrow brings.....what diagnosis you will receive at your next Dr's appointment. How long will that job and that health insurance that you are barely hanging on to now be around? May God have mercy on all of you.

53% is somehow an Obama "mandate", but 54% is meaningless, well doing the math 7% of those that voted for Obama oppose his health insurance plan. My number are based on 100% of McCain's 47% oppose Obamacare, which might not be true. Some of McCain's voters might support Obamacare which would push Obama's supporter dissenting against Obamacare even higher.

Statistics are just numbers that we use however we want to. Mr. B.O. seems to be a master of this. I think you are right, we should keep the part of our insurance that is working and work only on the parts that need fixing. We would then at least have a rudder to keep us on course while we navigate the reform process.

You make some very good points. I think it is very funny that many of the items that people say are "problems" came after health care reform in the 1990s. It just proves that if anyone can mess something up, it is the government. If we keep the government out of it then it has a chance of working. For everyone who wants the government running health care, look at the Cash for Clunkers program. Car dealers are starting to refuse to sell cars under the program because they are not getting their money fast enough. The program is already over $3 million dollars behind in payments. Junk yards are refusing to take the cars because the program requires the engines to be "locked up" and that is a large portion of their income. If the government cannot even run a Cash for Clunkers program, do you really want them making your health care decisions?