Numerology Class

More poll numbers -- this time dealing with Senior Citizens (since most of us will be one within our lifetime)

Senior Citizens Better or Worse Off Under Health Care Reforms?
Better Off 20%
Worse Off 37%
No Difference 29%
Don't Know 14%
144 registered voters age 65+; Sept 15-16; MOE+/- 8% (wow thats big!)

Which Do You Prefer?
Current Health Care System 54%
President's Propsed system 31%
Don't know/Not Sure 15%
144 registered voters age 65+; Sept 15-16; MOE+/- 8%

Wow - I'm not sure these polls can be trusted with such a wide margin of error ... that's huge statistically speaking.

And its not unusual that many seniors would want to keep what they have now -- who wants to change horses when you've nearly finished the race? But that is a really large number of seniors who think we will be worse off ....

remember many of these senior citizens grew up during the depression or in the years immediately following -- they have seen the time when there were no programs to the time when there were too many.