Fear and Loathing in Health Care Reform

Weekly Standard by Gary Andres | Jul. 6, 2009 (Opinion)

despite the contradictory findings, two simple themes explain a lot about citizen views of health care reform: fear and loathing. Fear refers to the significant number of Americans who like their health care and don't want it changed. Loathing is the attitude that government might do something to screw things up. Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business, Health
Topics: Obama Administration, Health Care
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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Jul 6, 2009 - 11:19 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Derek Hawkins (review), Kaizar Campwala (review), Fabrice Florin (review)
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Edited by: Derek Hawkins - Jul 6, 2009 - 11:19 PM PDT
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Derek Hawkins
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 by Derek Hawkins - Jul. 7, 2009

Not a very robust point -- that polls are sloppy and people tend to be risk-averse -- and it's not well presented here.

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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Jul. 7, 2009

An exploration of risk aversion among Americans about Health Care reform.

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