The following is a short excerpt from a CBS poll claiming that a majority of Americans favor socialized medicine:

Most Americans believe government can play a role in fixing the health care system. Two-thirds say the federal government should guarantee that all Americans have health insurance — and a similar number says providing health insurance for all is a more serious problem than keeping health care costs down.

I have no doubt that this poll was biased in the way it was conducted (because whenever I’ve looked into a poll conducted by the MSM it has been carefully devised to ensure a desired result. If I ever see an MSM poll that hasn’t been manipulated, I’ll reconsider my opinion on this.), however, if this poll is even close to accurate then we could all be in trouble.

It’s amazing to me that so many people have come to the conclusion that the government is the organization that will be able to run our hospitals the best. If you ask these same people about other government services (fixing potholes, the DMV, public schools, etc.), they’ll go into a tirade about how poorly those services are being handled. But somehow, a significant number of Americans think that health care will be the one thing that the government can get right. Based on the looks of Walter Reed lately, they’re confidence in the government’s ability to run a hospital is not well founded.

If, God forbid, we have the misfortune of getting stuck with a government run health care system, it will only take a few months before those who advocated it realize that it was a mistake. Unfortunately, once socialized medicine is here, we’ll never get rid of it.