Mondo Times Health Poll Archive

This poll ran from March 3 to 9, 2008.

Mondo Stars Poll Results

"We should guarantee health care to every child." True 1179/75% False 399/25%

Votes: 1578

Paul Krugman, from the op-ed article "Socialist Plot," published in the August 28, 2007 edition of The New York Times.

Krugman wrote: "The truth is that there's no difference in principle between saying that every American child is entitled to an education and saying that every American child is entitled to adequate health care. It's just a matter of historical accident that we think of access to free K-12 education as a basic right, but consider having the government pay children's medical bills "welfare," with all the negative connotations that go with that term.

"We offer free education, and don’t worry about middle-class families getting benefits they don’t need, because that's the only way to ensure that every child gets an education — and giving every child a fair chance is the American way. And we should guarantee health care to every child, for the same reason."

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