by Edward Ronald Jacobson

The way that many politicians and most of the media talks about “the public option” you would think that it’s favored by only a small portion of the populace. In reality that’s not even close to true. Most Americans (of all political stripes) support the inclusion of the public option as a part of health care reform.

A recent poll from CBS/NY Times shows that a 65% of Americans support the inclusion of the public option as a part of health care reform while only 26% are opposed to the idea (the other 9% have no opinion.)

While that overall number is very impressive, I think when you break the polling numbers down by party the widespread support for the choice of a medicare type program for all Americans is even more clear.

Among Democrats 81% support the public option while only 12% are against it. There are no breakdowns by region but I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the 12% against it are pseudo Democrats who live in the south (ie: the type of “Democrats” who voted for John McCain.)

Considering the fact that a huge majority of Americans support the public option and the fact that it’s been estimated that it will save billions of dollars, what reasons could a Senator have for voting against it?

People who are neither Republicans or Democrats (the all important “Independent” voters who usually swing general elections) support the public option by a 2 to 1 margin (61% to 30%.)

But perhaps most amazing are the numbers from Republican voters. Amazingly more Republicans are for the public option than against it! This is despite the way that Republican politicians have portrayed it in such a negative light (ie: they’ve lied about it time and time again.) 47% of Republicans support the public option against 42% who don’t support it. The other 11% have no opinion.

It’s obvious that the public option must be included as a part of health care reform so that it’s meaningful reform that creates real options for the American people and real competition for the private health insurance companies. And it’s clear now that all of the nonsense and lies of the right wing propaganda machine have started to die out that the American people strongly support the public option. Now it’s time for the politicians to do the right thing for a change and make the changes that we voted them into power to make.

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