re cbs ny times poll on health care alternatives in article apr isc br isc br com steveh thor isc br com steve hendricks writes thought others on the net might be interested in a selection of findings from the new york times cbs news poll on national health care i ll leave it to doug fierro to enter the entire article if he chooses what follows is a selection of the findings paraphrased without permission any errors are mine not the times the ny times doesn t make mistakes poll results deleted the economic and political ignorance of most americans can be truly scary price controls and government intervention the surest route to disaster it s amazing people never seem to learn from history or common sense price controls do not and cannot work i would have thought our last experiment in the s would have been enough to dampen the belief that price controls can actually work as for government intervention people never seem to get the irony of what the are saying we are told that entitlements are the biggest portion of the budget and they must be controlled we are presented with horror stories of waste and fraud in almost all government agencies we are shown stories about the miserable treatment our veterans get in our government run hospitals we are just now seeing stories about how social security isn t going to cut it in the future as if that should come as any surprise and yet people choose to ignore all of that and believe in the fairy tale of the government coming to the rescue simply amazing james w howe internet jwh citi umich edu university of michigan uucp uunet mailrus citi umich edu jwh ann arbor mi
