Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 5, 2009

News flash: More Americans are reporting that they’re satisfied with their current health insurance and have more confidence in the current health care system. House Republican Leader John Boehner’s (R-OH) has said it is a bad idea to “throw the current health care system under the bus” just to adopt the more expansive and expensive ObamaCare plan, which still is being revised.

At this point, it is estimated that the government-run program will require that 53 new departments, boards, and agencies be created, swelling the ranks of taxpayer-paid government employees to record highs.

In fact, per a new Rasmussen poll, forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters now rate the U.S. health care system as good or excellent and just 19% rate it as poor.

More health care poll results:

These figures reflect a significant increase in support for the health care system over the past few months. In May, just 35% of adults nationwide rated the system as good or excellent. A year ago, just 29% of Likely Voters rated the system in such positive terms.

The new polling also shows that 80% of those with insurance rate their own coverage as good or excellent.

There is a huge partisan gap on perceptions of the U.S. health care system. Seven-out-of-10 Republicans rate it as good or excellent, but only one-of-four Democrats agree. Among those not affiliated with either major political party, 53% rate the current system as good or excellent while just 18% say it’s poor.

Over the past few months, as the health care reform debate has raged, confidence in the current system has increased significantly among Republicans and unaffiliated voters. There has been little change among Democrats.

Just 28% say they are willing to pay higher taxes so that all Americans can have health insurance. Sixty percent (60%) are opposed.

And let’s not forget how “Cash for Clunkers” brought on some mayhem and financial craziness for our elected folks last week… the same wise folks that are trying to bully us convince us that THEY can ration destroy run our health care far better than we can.

FOX News reports on Boehner’s press conference about our current health care system and that a majority of Americans do not want the government to take it over with its proposed single-payer health care system.

Boehner: Americans Don’t Want a Government Takeover of Health Care

Related reading:
Gallup: Seniors Most Skeptical of Healthcare Reform
NewsBusters: White House Attacks Drudge for Exposing Obama’s Goal to Eliminate Private Health Insurance
Ann Coulter, TownHall: Take Two Aspirin and Call Me When Your Cancer is Stage 4
Behind Blue Lines: The Health Care Fight: Obama Shows His True Colors
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Hispanic Pundit: The Difference American Healthcare Makes
The Clumsy Fly: “If you like your current insurance, you’ll be able to keep it.”
No Runny Eggs: Listen to What I Say, Not What I Said!
Hot Air: Rasmussen: People starting to appreciate American health-care system and Quote of the day (Obama’s own words on ObamaCare eliminating private health insurance) and Three videos show why ObamaCare is in trouble and Wonderful: House “compromise” reinserts abortion option into ObamaCare
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John Saarikko, Universal Health Care Info: The Truth Nobody Wants You To Know

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