The Pew Research Center
Survey
July 24, 2003
Scrap Tax Cuts for Health Insurance
Fully 72% of Americans agree that the government should provide universal
health care, even if it means repealing most tax cuts passed since Bush took
office. Democrats overwhelmingly favor this proposal (86%-11%) and independents largely agree (78%-19%). Even a narrow majority of Republicans
(51%) favor providing health insurance for all even if it means canceling the tax cuts, while 44% disagree.
A big majority of those who support this proposal,ú 61%,ú think of it as a moral as well as a political issue, while most opponents tend to see this in strictly political terms (58%).
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=725
And…
Al-Jazeerah
8/31/03
Opinion
Majority of Americans Call for Universal Health Care
By Sam Adams
The United States of America is the only 1st-tier country that does not provide a comprehensive national health care system for all of its citizens. It is an appalling scandal that the richest country in the world ignores the needs of nearly 45 million people who lack health care insurance. The majority of Americans call for Universal Health Care, according to a PEW
Research Center Survey…
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2003%20Opinion%20Editorials/August/31%20o/Majority%20of%20Americans%20Call%20for%20Universal%20Health%20Care%20Sam%20Adams.htm
Comment: Our administration is attempting to bring American values to Iraq.
Shouldn’t we be uncomfortable with this report distributed by Al-Jazeerah?
More importantly, should we continue to neglect our problems here at home?
72% of us believe that our government should provide universal health care,
even if that means repealing most of the tax cuts. Does our example show other nations that democracy works? We have much more work to do to prove that it can.