Can Howard Dean back his statement up with facts?

see the issue is when u ask 2000 people is where and who if u ask 2000 new yorkers it will tell u that 95% of people want this if u ask 2000 people in alabama it will tell u 10% want this and they will each use thier tools to get what they want to hear everyone with a little sense or who has made a trip to the post office or dmv will tell u they want government nowhere near thier healthcare sorry liberals its a fact of life but the truth is no congressman reads the bill ever they have someone else read it and then have them tell the senator what it says they say they do this because if they read all the legislation they voted on nothing would get passed but ultimately thats the idea

WE DONT NEED MORE LEGISLATION WE NEED LESS LEGISLATION!!!!!

the reason u cant buy insurance from elsewhere is because of legislation see what i am saying thats why the free market fails

the government gets involved

Yeah, he can. He's may not be as smart as Obama, but he's very smart, nonetheless.

The poll is from over a month ago. That was long before Obama had even described his plan.

Also, keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that *some* health care reform is necessary. Have you seen an alternative plan, that's attracted more than 42 percent support? Of course not. So what's on the table now, is the best game in town.

The first part of his statement is dead-on correct. Both parties ram things through. The big difference is that Obama is forcing the Congress to do its job and formulate the bill, while Bush and Cheney decided on everything themselves while bypassing the Congress altogether.

I'm don't know about the second part of the statement. But I think that most Americans want the Congress to get the reform legislation done so that they can go on to other things. Health care is not the only thing that needs to be reformed. Not by a long shot.

The majority of people want A BILL to reform health care however there is not a majority in favor of this one, or for that matter any one proposal, because of the variety of proposals that have been offered. If I were polled I would say I do not like it also because I support a single payer system and some people like McCain's voucher proposal.

Howard Dean has a big mouth and a small brain.

Polls show that people are more concerned about government spending than the health care problem. We need to get our economy back on track and not spend multi-billions of dollars on health care until we can afford to pay for it. Right now, we can't.

Joe Liberman (I-Connecticut) has it right: We ned to slow down and take health care reform one step at a time. Firat, let's repeal the law than bans government-run health care agencies (Medicare, Medicare and the VA) from negotiating lower prices for rescription drugs. Then let's bar insurance companies from cancelling policies for anything other than failure to pay premiums. Then, let's not allow insurance companies to refuse coverage for previously existing conditions.

The previously existing conditions problem is a major one because of the massive job losses we have experienced. If you lose your job and your company-sponsored health care insurance, when you get a new job or buy a private policy, almost EVERYTHING is a previously existing condition.

It shows that corporate conglomerate control of government works. 40,000 Lobbyists in DC are doing their job well.

ThinkProgress has obtained a list of the domains hosted on DDC servers. A review of this data shows that DDC maintains the grassroots outreach websites for large health insurance companies, but also for big tobacco and Koch Industries:

– phillipmorrisusaactioncenter.org (Altria)

– tobaccoissues.com (Altria)

– kochpac.com (Koch Industries)

– aetnavotes.com (Aetna)

– healthactionnetwork.org (WellPoint)

– humanapartners.com (Humana)

– ahipadvocacy.org (AHIP)

DDC is a firm that promises “high impact” outreach programs to not only influence the grassroots, but “change attitudes for the long term.” As the Washington Post explains, DDC pays over 500 contract workers to “spend much of their day telephoning people around the country and asking them to sign letters to Congress that press for legislation.” The firm helped orchestrate “grassroots” support for President Bush’s push to privatize Social Security, and helped manage online efforts for the right-wing attack group Freedom’s Watch. DDC is headed by B.R. McConnon, a former associate of Jack Abramoff’s lobbying partners, and a former employee of the Koch-funded astroturf organization known as Citizens for a Sound Economy.

Citizens for a Sound Economy — which has also received funds from private health insurers in the past and played a critical astroturf role in killing reform under Clinton — eventually split, with one wing forming Americans for Prosperity in 2003, and another forming FreedomWorks in 2004. Both organizations, which are still funded by the Koch Industries empire, were instrumental in organizing the anti-Obama tea party protests, and have been spreading misinformation and anger at the current health reform effort. Americans for Prosperity’s anti-health reform front group, Patients United, has hosted speakers comparing the House health reform bill to the Holocaust.

Thanks Mr Victory! for doing our homework for us. If you take 20 polls, you will have 20 different answers. I saw this week that the Dr. I had for many years shut the office doors. Seems too many people who had Medicare and were most of her patients, felt obliged to 'join' a provider group in their best interest. That was well and good maybe, but groups like these you have to use their approved doctors. So much for choice.

Yes, he can....77% of Americans want the choice of a public option and health care reform: http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=...

An earlier poll, by the WSJ, from June 2009, showed public support for health care reform WITH the public option to be at 76% approval. http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/09...

I saw him this morning. I would say, yes. Dr. Howard Dean is a good guy.

Dean said ''many feel that Mr Bush know about 9/11 before hand'' when asked ''do you feel he did'' No but it should be investigated'' He is insane