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76% of students at UNC Chapel Hill agree that access to health care is a 'right'.

Indoctrination 101...

I'd like to see these same students polled in about 20 years... after their earnings are hijacked to pay for this socialist scheme.

UNC? good basket ball team. If you want free health care, go to Mexico, run across the boarder, and you can get free health care. The NR, now wants the illegals to take space in schools, so you hard working NC people, children can be denied space for your children.

"we wrote and distributed an online survey to the top graduate health policy and administration programs.." "...When asked whether they believed access to health care was a right, 76 percent of the respondents agreed."

They polled people who work in academia and only got 76 percent? I'm amazed it wasn't higher. There is hope.

".... and maybe this time the obstructionists' efforts will be stifled."

I see Austin, these who disagree with a govt. takeover of the US health care system are obstructionists and must be stifled.

BTW, just what the hell is a "School of Public Health" and how did we - as a country - survive so long without it?

"As students at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health, we wrote and distributed an online survey..."

Now that the respondents have determined health care to be a "right," perhaps you could write and distribute a survey on our Constitution and how it relates.

It would be interesting to see if a percentage changed their minds. Or grasped any deeper meaning on what the document is. Or even understood the significance of 10th Amendment in the matter.

It looks to me that the politicians have succeeded. We can't make it without them. Or at least that's what they keep telling us.

Roger

O' to be young and clueless again. In the early nineties Mr. Austin would have been just out of diapers and it's very obvious his research into the history of health care reform in the early nineties, aka Hillarycare, has been shall we say, a little one sided and shoddy. This reminds me of a quote I heard some years back originally talking about communism but very applicable here as well with a few choice revisions. " If you're under thirty and you're not a liberal, you have no heart. If you're over thirty and you are a liberal then you have no brain." When it's his paycheck the government starts raiding every week to support the rest of the country, I imagine he'll be singing a slightly different tune.

:"The effort to achieve health care reform in the early 1990s was stifled by partisan politics."

Mr. Johnson, you were probably in elementary school in 1993, so everything you know on this subject is what people have told you. I was there, and the reason Hillary's efforts flopped was because she tried to mandate socialized medicine upon the people in a manner that made people's skin crawl. She had illegal secret meetings, developing a draconian health care system. She would have even taken it so far as to limit how many medical students cold enter specialized practices.

No, it wasn't partisan politics, it was the American people telling Hillary to keep her hands off their medical care. It was her failed efforts to socialize health care that did in the Democrats in the 1994 congressional elections and gave rise to Newt Gingrich. Hillary showed her true colors there, proving that she is a socialist at heart.

So much for the News & Record's strategy to report local news and flavor. Guess that doesn't apply to the Letters to the Editor considering this is a letter from a Chapel Hill student living in Durham.

Oh, that's right. It's a UNC Chapel Hill student. We all know how this newspaper worships at the foot of that particular University.

Seriously, I'm sure there are better and more scientific polls out there to support his argument.

It kinda gives me a warm fuuzy feelin' to know I am to be counted among the 24%, the 35%, the 47% and the 30% of this single poll.
It may come from the fact I'm not so young, I worked for 42 years and never bought into Karl Marx crap.

Go, obstructionists!!!

Even as shoddy propoganda, this is weak. A majority of health administrators wants the government to open its--that is, our--pockets for increased health care spending? I'm shocked--shocked!

I too was very surprised at the numbers being so very low considering the group they polled. The universities are hot beds of socialists and that is just a nice word for Supercilious Asses who think they know better than the rest of us how to spend our money. It is heartening to see that one good thing of an aging population and that is we have lived long enough to have outgrown the indoctrination we got as students and are living long enough to fight back when these "experts" poke their heads outside of the ivory towers.

And one other thing looks promising: From all reports the generation who are in their teens now appear to be much more pragmatic and unwilling to be led like sheep. BB

Let me throw my two cents into this stew. First, the writer did not indicate the statistical validity of the survey such as degree of error, etc. Was the sample even valid?

Second, I remember taking a Public Policy course at UNC. The class in its entirity consisted of employees of UNC, the EPA, hospitals and other governmental entities, except for myself. The hypothetical situation was what to do about an employee caught stealing from the department he worked for. Each participant called for coaching, counseling, temporary suspension and other discipline. As the only person outside public service, I said "FIRE HIM. HE CAN'T BE TRUSTED AND IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN!"

Needless to say, my classmates were shocked.

ORR:

Why is it that when Hilary had "secret meetings", they are illegal, but when Cheney did it, it was OK?

What evidence do you have it was a "draconian health care system"?

What evidence do you have "She would have even taken it so far as to limit how many medical students could enter specialized practices."

What evidence do you have "it wasn't partisan politics"?