School House Rock? I Prefer Dr. House Rock.
According to a recent poll for the AARP, most people still don’t know what the public option actually entails.
Even after all the rhetoric, the posturing, the partisan politics, three out of five people do not know what is on the line. Peep the stats:
“A new survey by Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates for the AARP reveals widespread uncertainty about the nature of the “public option” — a government-run health insurance policy that would be offered along with private policies in the newly-created health insurance exchanges.” When given three separate choices as to what the public option entailed, only 37 percent of people chose the correct option. 26 percent of people believed the public option would be a nationalized health care system like Great Britain, while 13 percent thought the public option would be a network of health care co-ops. The final 23 percent of people didn’t know.
Luckily, I’m feeling pretty generous today, so I spent some time tracking down a little video which will put any confusion to rest. End of story. Send it to your friends and stuff, so you can let that guy next door who cries “OH MY GOD IT’S SOCIALISM WTF” whenever anyone mentions health care reform that he is basically a nut job.
Check the video after the jump. It’ll give you the straight dope about what health care reform is and what it isn’t. AND it’s a pretty cute cartoon too. Chloe Hilliard would be proud.
Be sure to send this thing out to everyone you know. We’ve gotta educate the people!
