POLL: 77% SUPPORT PUBLIC OPTION

If the health insurance companies and their friends among Republicans, the religious right, and right-wing talk show hosts thought they could scare folks against real healthcare reform, they are badly mistaken.
How badly? Try more than three of every four Americans.
That's what SurveyUSA is reporting in a national poll sponsored by Moveon.org.
Here's the key survey question:

Question: In any health care proposal, how important do you feel it is to give people a choice of both a public plan administered by the federal government and a private plan for their health insurance--extremely important, quite important, not that important, or not at all important?

Extremely important....58%
Quite important........19%
Not that important..... 7%
Not at all important...15%
Not sure............... 1%

Get that: Those who think it's extremely or quite important add up to be 77 percent.
How big has the public option become? Here's Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she won’t be able to pass health-care legislation in her chamber if the measure doesn’t include a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers.
“There’s no way I can pass a bill in the House of Representatives without a public option,” Pelosi, a California Democrat, said at a press conference in San Francisco today.

Now let's get real healthcare reform WITH a robust public option passed!