http://reason.com/news/show/135873.html

This article touches on some key problems with the polling process and this subject in general. It points out that these polls are not just a flat rate of asking x persons whether they are for of against the public option. It starts with the basic question, then continues with hypothetical questions about a nebulous “public ‘option’” that has not even been fully fleshed out by it’s creators. These hypothetical can include any number of items which have no bearing on the actual subject at hand, but are created to obtain a false positive on the side of those who disagree with the reality of the public ‘option’. Those false positives are added to those who already said yes, to create astronomical false numbers such as your 80%. This is also completely ignoring the use of regional bias to tilt an issue in whatever direction, while keeping a marginal quantity of dissenters to fallaciously suggest an unbiased sampling. As I’ve already stated, polls are bullshit.

The linked article is good for exposing the flaws of polling, but still fails to address the fact that the so called “public ‘option’” is nothing of the sort. It was designed and marketed to the democratic candidates to leech customers from private insurance agencies to leech customers from private firms by offering an almost unlimited pool of cash siphoned off the taxpayers. No private insurance agency can compete with an unlimited cash flow. This is nothing more than an attempt to covertly nationalize a private industry. The plan that claims to increase choices will suck all competition dry, killing all other choices while offering unreasonable payouts to anyone who switches over. Once it has a monopoly on the industry, it will restrict care to make up for the glut of spending in it’s competitive days. By that time it will be a a voting block all on it’s own, and even though a vast majority will wish for the days of personalized care, quick results, and medical innovation, the sprawling mass of bureaucrats and jobless dependents will fight tooth and nail to keep their stranglehold on everyone-else’s money.