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Poll: Health coverage not federal government's job

For the first time in 12 years, a majority say it is not the federal government’s responsibility to ensure that health care coverage is provided to all Americans, according to a poll on Wednesday.

Only 44 percent believe the government should guarantee health care coverage, and 54 percent believe it has no such responsibility, according to a Gallup survey.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/84313.html?hp=r8




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Obviously, this wasn't a big issue to most voters

or Obama would have lost to any anti-Obamacare Republican candidate by a comfortable margin.

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Too bad

the "anointed" candidate was NOT anti-Obamacare LOL

Your morals =/= my laws.

Um, actually he was.

Romney was planning on repealing Obamacare and replacing it with many of the free market solutions that Ron Paul was planning on replacing it with.

I guess we just happen to

I guess we just happen to live in a very strange society with a philosophically ungrounded electorate.

"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson