Communications

At the White House press briefing today, Robert Gibbs said that starting over on health care reform “is not what American people want.”

According to a recent poll, Gibbs couldn’t be more wrong about what the American people want.

 “Presented with a choice of ways forward, 43.9 percent said Congress should start over, 25.1 percent said Congress should pass some kind of bill and fix it later, and just 18.1 percent said they backed Democratic leaders' preferred strategy of having the House pass the Senate bill alongside other legislation to modify it,” according to a Zogby International-University of Texas Health Science Center poll.

That’s right. Not only do the American people reject the plans Democrats have put forward already, but exactly 18.1% actually endorse what has become the White House’s plan of action for moving forward on health care.