{"id":14027,"date":"2009-10-09T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14027"},"modified":"2012-10-14T01:58:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T06:58:35","slug":"american-opinion-about-health-care-reform-and-its-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/09\/american-opinion-about-health-care-reform-and-its-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"American Opinion About Health Care Reform and its Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/25\/us\/politics\/25poll.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">data from the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> suggests that Americans are largely confused about what the hell politicians are trying to do with health care, but they really do want a public option:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14029\" title=\"Capture\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/Capture37.JPG\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"465\" height=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that 65% of Americans support a public option, the <em>New York Times<\/em>headline said that the public was &#8220;wary&#8221; of Obama on health care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This interesting data from the New York Times suggests that Americans are largely confused about what the hell politicians are trying to do with health care, but they really do want a public option: Despite the fact that 65% of Americans support a public option, the New York Timesheadline said that the public was &#8220;wary&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[252,85,693],"class_list":["post-14027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-healthmedicine","tag-politics","tag-public-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51778,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14027\/revisions\/51778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}