What do MoveOn Members think about Healthcare? Who knows

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Source: Huffington Post Blog

On Wednesday I posted a blog on Huffington Post asking readers to sign a Petition requesting that our friends at MoveOn.Org let its members vote on whether they support universal single payer health care or reforming private health insurance (while adding an optional public plan that the uninsured could purchase themselves). In less than 48 hours, nearly 3,000 people have signed the Petition and, as the Petition spreads virally, new signatures keep coming in at the rate of 50-100 per hour.

On Thursday, Eli Pariser of MoveOn responded with a blog asserting that MoveOn had already determined that by 70%-23%, a majority of its members supported reforming private health insurance with an optional public alternative instead of supporting universal single payer health care, based upon what MoveOn claimed was a "random sample" of its members.

At first this seemed strange to me. Most members of MoveOn are presumably progressive. So one would tend to assume that they would be more supportive of single payer health care than the average American voter. But while polls by major news organizations have shown a majority of Americans supporting single payer, MoveOn's "random sample" indicated MoveOn's member's rejected single payer by nearly 3-1 in favor of a private insurance/public hybrid.

Meanwhile, an Associated Press poll in December, 2007 asked voters "Do you consider yourself a supporter of a single-payer health care system that is a national plan financed by taxpayers in which all Americans would get their insurance from a single government plan, or not?" 54% said "Yes" and 44% said "No".



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/what-do-moveon-members-th_b_119279.html

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Here is a previous call in the Activist forum to take the MoveOn Healthcare survey.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x32769

Are these questions a useful way to guage MoveOn members' views on healthcare?

Is MoveOn really giving up the ghost on universal healthcare in favor of a more expedient form of health care insurance "reform"?

[Terranist]

1. They were supposedt o have a healthcare forum but never had it

With the Dem. candidates that is. I think maybe they decided that was a bad idea after Dennis Kucinich scored highly on the other two forums.

[Overseas]

2. So disappointing. Single payer universal health care coverage is so important

and so Democratic. Returning health care to a right rather than a privilege. It is just so important for the future economic health of our businesses and individuals.

Why on earth they would want to push that into supporting reforming private plans is ridiculous. How very sad.

[clixtox]

3. Please get involved in this...

MoveOn must be turned around on this quickly before they lose their credibility.

I am shocked to find out about how MoveOn has lagged on Single-Payer, Universal Health Care.

Please let MoveOn.org know how you feel about this crucial issue.