Everyone's talking about Obama's initiative for health care reform. As a result, data and charts are popping up in the news on the confidence in and cost of reforming health care. Here's a few tasty goodies:
On Healthcare, Americans Trust Physicians Over Politicians from Gallup: Seventy-three percent of Americans are confident that physicians will recommend the right way to reform the health care system. Those polled extended significantly less confidence to President Barack Obama and six other groups that will take part in the health care reform debate.
Obama Poll Sees Doubt on Budget and Health Care from the New York Times: A recent poll finds that a majority of Americans think that President Obama has not developed a strategy to deal with the budget deficit. 34 percent disapprove of the way he's handling health care.
Congress: A Good Place for Health Care to Die from FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver takes a look at Clinton's approval ratings within the context of the Health Care Debate in 1993-4.
Rhetoric of Rationing Health Care Overlooks Reality and graphic from the New York Times: Article exploring the idea of rationing health care. Graphic shows that the United States spends more on health care than other countries, but our survival rates aren't always better.
How Health Care Stole Your Pay Raise
from The Atlantic: Health care could be robbing you of your bonus at work. The Atlantic explains, "health care reform isn't just about reforming care. It's
about reforming the economy. New bumper sticker: 'Reform Health Care;
Get a Raise!'"
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