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<\/a> <\/p>\n87 of you (50%) want ton reject any bill that does not contain a public option. 46 (26%) want a bill with no public option. By way of explanation, two of our articles were prominently placed in the Google News listings, prompting several comments from GOP spin-mavens under blank profiles. Tracking their visits revealed that a couple of them cleaned their cookies and voted several times to skew the results. To combat that, I changed polling applications. 30 (17%) of you want a public option, but think that less is better than nothing. 8 (5%) of you are still undecided. 4 (2%) of you don\u2019t care. I fail to understand how anyone doesn\u2019t care about this issue.<\/p>\n
My heart is clearly with the plurality in this poll, but my vote went to \u201cbetter than nothing\u201d. I desperately want a public option to pass. However, it may be that too many Democratic Senators are in the pockets of greedy corporations to get it through. If, and only if that happens, I would accept a lesser bill that contained strict regulation over insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and absolutely no welfare<\/strong> for those companies. That would mean removing the mandate (requirement to buy insurance) and removing all the funding, except funding to states to expand Medicaid to cover the working poor.<\/p>\n How did you vote and why?<\/p>\n There is now a new poll up. It is the first in a series of short polls (7 \u2013 10 days) intended establish a priority ranking of progressive concerns. I know I have left out several, because I brain-farted when putting it up, so if something else is your first choice, please choose other, and comment (in the poll itself) to identify the option. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are the results of out most recent poll. 87 of you (50%) want ton reject any bill that does not contain a public option. 46 (26%) want a bill with no public option. By way of explanation, two of our articles were prominently placed in the Google News listings, prompting several comments from GOP […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-news","category-31-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}