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Obama’s ‘Hope Without Change’ on Health Care Policy

June 29, 2009 - 12:50 am - by Arnold Kling
jharp
2009-06-30 07:41:21

Six years ago, the Kaiser Foundation asked a national sample of adults to rate the Medicare program. Medicare was hugely popular among those aged 65 or greater. Eighty percent rated Medicare favorably. Similarly, more than half of seniors (62 percent) considered Medicare “well run” compared to only 28 percent willing to say the same of “private health plans such as PPOs and HMOs that people get through their jobs.”