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Republicans are already jumping on the new NBC-WSJ poll numbers showing more people disapprove of health care reform than support it. This is evidence that, the more Democrats allow conservatives to water down the plan, the less popular it becomes.

Very early in the debate, when single payer was discussed, the plan had wide ranging support. When single payer was replaced by public option, it began losing support but support still remained above 73% consistently.

Recently, when the public option was replaced by a Medicare buy-in, it lost even more support.

Now that Democrats have allowed conservatives to water it down even more by removing the Medicare buy-in, it is less popular than ever. For the first time, the polling data is showing that more people oppose it than support it.

The obvious conclusion is that the polling data shows that the people have spoken loudly in support of a public option and they reject a plan that has been watered down by Republicans and some Democratic conservatives.

The more that the idea becomes “privatized,” the less people like it. The more that the plan becomes “Republicanized,” the less they like it. The more that Republican ideas influence the plan, the less popular it is. And the more that the idea strays from the Progressive idea it began with, the less popular it is among the American people.

Republicans would rather do nothing on this issue and polling data shows that doing nothing is less popular than single payer. It was a Republican House and Senate that was nicknamed “the do-nothing Congress.” The people have spoken loud and clear, they want health care reform but not the kind of reform that Republicans are pushing which is no reform at all. Americans want Progressive health care reform, not reform watered down by conservatives.