I'll bet there are some folks who think Britney Spears is America's best pop singer. Likewise, there are undoubtedly some out there who think Sarah Palin's memoir, "Going Rogue" is better than Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" They're subjective measurements and like Paul Simon wrote; "one man's ceiling is another man's floor".
There are things, though, that can be evaluated with objective or relative measures, an example being the U.S. health care system. The cost, the availability, and the effectiveness of treatment are all quantifiable metrics that one can use to compare our own health care system to other country's health care plans.
And despite all kinds of objective evidence that U.S. health care is more expensive, unavailable to nearly 50 million Americans, and provides inferior results to most industrialized nations, the new Gallup poll shows an increasing belief that American health care is excellent or good.
Likewise, there's an upward trend in those satisfied with the cost of U.S. health care.
It seems pretty clear the poll results indicate there's growing concern that screwing with the system may change things for the worse and respondents are now putting on their happy face. But the results demonstrate an obvious failure on the part of the Administration, Congress and the media to fully explain the shabby state of American health care.
Finally, just saying something doesn't make it so. Brittany Spears may not, after all, be America's best pop singer.
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