IWV poll finds ‘sharp opposition’ in key districts to healthcare takeover

Analysis by Kay B. Day

Despite having absolute control of two branches of the federal government, Democrats have not been able to push the federal healthcare takeover through Congress. That may change this week, depending on threats, promises and cajoling by Dem leaders who want something done at any cost. But a poll released on Monday by Independent Women’s Voice found what the activist organization calls “astonishing intensity and sharp opposition to reform.” The poll was conducted by the Polling Company.

The US Report, in the interest of ethics in reporting, does not refer to Democrat plans for healthcare as ‘reform.’ We prefer the accurate term: government takeover.

In an editorial about healthcare at The Wall Street Journal, IWV CEO Heather Higgins and The Polling Company CEO Kellyanne Conway said the national polls Dem leaders cite as showing support for their plans relate to support for “individual provisions of the bill…”

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Kaiser healthcare poll raises questions about public option responses

by Kay B. Day

Leftists in the Democratic Party want another public option for healthcare despite the fact Medicaid and Medicare are taxpayer sinkholes with a level of oversight similar to a cat watching sparrows scritching beneath the bushes. The Chicago Tribune cited a Kaiser Family Foundation September health care survey that showed “57 percent of Americans support the creation of a public health insurance option similar to Medicare."  Questions and analysis of the poll are posted online. But a review of all data provided raises questions about the questions and the analysis.

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