because it showed the majority were in a favor of a national insurance plan for everyone.
Considering that the public option was an item that was sold strongly, the lack of any mention in this memo makes it hard to believe it was just an oversight.
Cui bono?
Posted by Andrew Coates MD on Monday, Dec 1, 2008
http://pnhp.org/blog/2008/12/01/cui-bono/"Why Does Celinda Lake Oppose Single Payer?
Self-described as “one of the Democratic Party’s leading political strategists,” Celinda Lake has claimed that single-payer reform lacks meaningful popular support. Lake’s research, done for the Herndon Alliance, has consistently supported reform based upon private health insurance. She and the Herndon Alliance are largely responsible for the notion that a single payer Medicare-for-all healthcare system is ‘not politically feasible.’
Lake’s findings are in sharp contradiction to numerous polls showing that single payer is enormously popular.
* In a New York Times/CBS News poll in February 2007, 64% said that the federal government should guarantee health insurance for all Americans.
* In October 2003, 62% of respondents to a Washington Post/ABC News poll said they preferred “a universal health insurance program, in which everybody is covered under a program like Medicare that’s run by the government and financed by taxpayers.”
* These findings were repeated in a 2007 Associated Press-Yahoo poll in which 65% supported a Medicare-for-all system.
Kip Sullivan, an attorney and health systems analyst, has been at work on a soon-to-be published analysis of the research methods and methodology used by Celinda Lake to conduct her work on behalf of the Herndon Alliance..."
Here is the follow up article...
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/december/americans_support_si.php