Recent polls have said that the majority of Americans, who do have health insurance, are satisfied with their current healthcare insurance plan. And the fact of the matter is that despite the seemingly overwhelming number of 45- 50 million Americans without health insurance, the majority of Americans in fact have health insurance. The idea that the majority of this majority are basically happy, is good news for the Republicans, and maybe not such good news for the Democrats. All of the candidates on the left vying for the White House have proposed sweeping changes to how and where all Americans - not just those currently without health insurance - get their medical benefits.

A recent poll on the overall state of healthcare in America published by the Kaiser Foundation revealed that of the respondents with health insurance coverage over 90% of them rated their health insurance coverage as good or excellent. That figure is the highest in many years. The same survey also found that the majority of respondents felt they were not paying too much for healthcare, were satisfied with the quality of the care they received from their doctors, and felt they did not have to wait overly long for care in Emergency Rooms. Not exactly the same picture of the “crisis” that many calling for a major overhaul of the healthcare system have been painting.

This is not to say that people are not concerned with health insurance benefits and their costs. And is it not to belittle the problem of those without access to affordable healthcare insurance. But it does seem to suggest that a more, if you will pardon the pun, conservative approach to change may be more palatable to voters.

It seems if there is any consensus among voters as it relates to affordable health insurance it is a concern about medical benefits so closely wrapped up to a particular job. Those that have health benefits are happy that they do, but many realize they are just one layoff or cutback away from joining the ranks of the uninsured. Still even for them, they do not want to see radical overhauls of the current health insurance system. Certainly not one that would have them giving up or changing their current group health insurance. Rather these voters would just like to know that there is more of a safety net in place if they should leave their jobs. Something that gives their health insurance benefits portability, but keeps health insurance premiums low when they move on. Something more akin to an affordable health insurance market created by a free market for private health insurance, rather than another big government bureaucracy. And that sounds a lot like what the right has been proposing.

All of this may spell good news for the GOP – and may be leading Democrats down the road to making the same mistakes regarding health insurance reform made by one former First Lady and current candidate, back in 1993.