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...research shows that 15 years later, support for health care reform still fluctuates based on how certain aspects of the legislation are presented—specifically, the public option and the cost to the individual. This is happening despite the fact that a majority of the American public believes that the nation needs health care reform, according to polling data...
...recent study is the first paper to single out individual opinion as a factor in the health care debate, Blendon said, while most political scientists believe the public is most concerned with the national effects of reform...
Amitabh Chandra, a professor of public policy and director of health policy research at the Kennedy School, said that Blendon’s results were manifest in American politics, adding that it is “absolutely true” that public opinion regarding current health reform is based more on how it affects each person individually than impact on the nation. Chandra added that what the American public wants for themselves is often in the long run good for the United States...
John M. Benson, an author of the paper, advised that proponents of health care reform persuade the public by focusing on individual impact of legislation in keeping with the study...
Entrenched interests often protect themselves at the expense of innovation. Barack Obama can’t reconcile that tradeoff. The president spent Wednesday in Wisconsin explaining his revolutionary $4.35 billion Race to the Top initiative, which will give states an immediate monetary incentive to reform dilapidated public schools...