{"id":26964,"date":"2007-09-27T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:55:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:55:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:55:18","slug":"do_the_poll_again_rasmussen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/09\/27\/do_the_poll_again_rasmussen\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Poll Again, Rasmussen"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: I want to go back to this Rasmussen poll: 44% of American adults say that health care services should be made available for free to all Americans. It was a phone survey. Thirty-nine percent disagree with the premise, and 17% are not sure. Now, my first reaction when I saw this was, &#8216;Oh, no! We\u2019re getting close to mob rule here!\u2019 And then I said, &#8216;Why stop at health care for all Americans? Why not health care for every human being around the world?\u2019 Who are we to deny health care, free health care, for everybody in the world? We\u2019re all human beings, and we\u2019re no better or different than anybody else. Then I got to asking myself a different question. By the way, I think Rasmussen ought to redo this, I really do. As part of the question, ask, &#8216;Would you be willing to wait six months for surgery if every American were given free health care?\u2019 Well? This happens. Canada, Great Britain. How about the story from Great Britain that we had yesterday? They are actually telling women over there, &#8216;Natural childbirth, give birth to your baby in a birthing pool. Don\u2019t come to us; don\u2019t come to the hospital; don\u2019t come for pain drugs and don\u2019t come for epidurals because we\u2019re not giving them anymore.\u2019 Why? They don\u2019t have the money. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125112.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignright\"\/>So if we gave health care free to all Americans, would you as a pregnant mother be willing to give birth to your child in a birthing pool with no pain drugs provided by your health care plan? You know, put some reality into this. Do it again, Scott. Please, do it again. If you said, &#8216;Do you think we should have free beer for all Americans?\u2019 well, the answer would be 94%. We got some teetotalers, of course, that don\u2019t drink, so they would think, no, why should I pay for somebody\u2019s beer when I don\u2019t drink beer, when I\u2019m not gonna get anything out of it? Why did only 44% say yes? See, you can see this number, and you can say two things about it. You can look at it as though it\u2019s a disaster because it is close to 50%, that\u2019s mob rule, oh, no. Or you can look at it and say, wow, you know what, I\u2019m a little surprised. Many more people don\u2019t want, or are not sure about, free health care for all Americans than those who want it. <\/p>\n<p>As you know, ladies and gentlemen, I tend to always try to find the positive in these circumstances. Scott, when you redo the poll &#8212; I mean, I don\u2019t know him, don\u2019t misunderstand &#8212; Mr. Rasmussen, when you redo the poll, when you put in this question about American people wanting free health care for all Americans, ask them who they think should pay for it. The French? The United Nations? Ask them in the question, if you have to pay for your free health care, do you think every American should have free health care? Because, see, it\u2019s not free. There is no such thing as free. I\u2019m surprised that Rasmussen came up with this question. 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