{"id":7900,"date":"2010-12-02T17:49:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T22:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7900"},"modified":"2010-12-02T17:50:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T22:50:42","slug":"new-gallup-survey-82-rate-their-health-care-good-or-excellent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7900\/new-gallup-survey-82-rate-their-health-care-good-or-excellent\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gallup Survey:  82% Rate Their Health Care &#8220;Good&#8221; or &#8220;Excellent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously said that we mustn&#8217;t allow a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122721278056345271.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;crisis to go to waste&#8221;<\/a> in foisting such things as ObamaCare upon an unwilling nation.\u00a0 But what if there&#8217;s no &#8220;crisis&#8221; in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>This month, Gallup released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/144869\/Americans-Ratings-Own-Healthcare-Quality-Remain-High.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">scientific survey<\/a> that is a critical component in any health care policy discussion.\u00a0 In what must come as a devastating shock for those who defend ObamaCare, an astonishing 82% of Americans rate their health care as &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;excellent.&#8221;\u00a0 Some 40% place their health care in the &#8220;excellent&#8221; category, which exceeds the previous high of 38% and the long-term average of 34%.\u00a0 Even those who don&#8217;t possess health insurance (which must be distinguished from actual health care) rate their health care &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;excellent&#8221; by a 53% majority.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, there is no health care &#8220;crisis,&#8221; only a lot of ObamaCare &#8220;waste.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously said that we mustn&#8217;t allow a &#8220;crisis to go to waste&#8221; in foisting such things as ObamaCare upon an unwilling nation.\u00a0 But what if there&#8217;s no &#8220;crisis&#8221; in the first place? This month, Gallup released a scientific survey that is a critical component in any health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[842,12,24,35],"class_list":["post-7900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-gallup","tag-health-care","tag-obama","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7902,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900\/revisions\/7902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}