Yet again, I was polled last night, by Total Marketing and Communications, in what is presumably the Government's regular Omnibus poll, although this poll was quite a bit shorter than the usual ones from TMC, so it does make me wonder if it was a special order with a focus on health care. It was also free of much of the extraneous commercial questions that businesses tack on to the Omnibus poll.
One question that did jump out at me (not word for word):
"Are you aware of the existence of the Government's Medical Clinic?"
"Have you ever used, or taken someone to use, the Government clinic?"
Hmmmm. Government's polling (albeit briefly) the Medical Clinic.
But here's a question, if it's used mostly by those with limited financial resources and those who are homeless, won't any poll results be skewed away from those without a phone?
And...doesn't the Government already know exactly how many people use the clinic. Just count the files.
Anyway, I'm not sure what the significance of the question was, but it was interesting that it was included in a poll when we've been repeatedly told that it's a done deal.
