More Americans report being hurt by health care law than helped (have @ it)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20140311/LIVEWELL26/140319992/1685#more-americans-report-being-hurt-by-health-care-law-than-helped

By Katy Healey / World-Herald staff writer
March 11, 2014

More Americans reported being hurt by the Affordable Care Act than helped in Gallup's latest opinion poll on the health care law. The majority of Americans – roughly three in five adults – said the law has had no impact on them or their families.

One in 10 Americans said it helped them, and 23 percent of those polled said it has hurt them, the highest percentage reported since Gallup first asked Americans about the law two years ago.

People who listed their political affiliation as either Republican or Independent were much more likely to give the law negative feedback: 39 percent of Republicans and one in four Independents said it hurt them.

Just 7 percent of Democrats feel that way.

The poll did not ask in what way the law hurt or helped respondents, however, so it's unclear whether they have actually been affected by it. It's possible they were expressing either their disapproval or approval of the health care law.

The results are based on telephone interviews with more than 1,500 adults in the U.S.

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[2pooped2pop]

1. 99.9% of republicans were lying

Most of them probably have not even been to the website.

[Fumesucker]

2. People always answer polls honestly

I read it right here on DU, eleventy dozen percent of liberal Democrats support Obama.

[treestar]

4. That is not going to work

Trying to invalidate polls by claiming people lie to affect the outcome. People answering polls cannot conspire to affect the outcome of the poll. Statistically, polls can explain themselves and they are accurate when tested by real events, like elections. Just quit with this one. It makes us look like we are trying to bury our heads in the sand.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

6. Your responses #4 & 5 are in complete contradiction to one another.

[Fumesucker]

10. Turning radius smaller than Mitt Romney's soul

[DisgustipatedinCA]

11. I love that. I'm borrowing it. nt

[treestar]

12. No. They didn't lie in the poll.

They really believe the ACA is bad (as the media reassured them) and didn't try. So they said they were hurt by it. They meant it.

[treestar]

5. Exactly, they probably didn't even try

after all the media trashing of the system.

[edhopper]

3. what a gift for a rethug

you get a call asking if the ACA has hurt you and how would you answer that? Especially since Faux keeps telling you it's the worst thing that has happened since the Civil War. The fact that it has no or a small positive impact t in reality should stop you from bashingit,.
In other words, bullshit.

[Puzzledtraveller]

7. I'm on the front lines

I have been a medicaid caseworker since 2009 and doing the new HBE applications since systems went live in October. The mood amongst co-workers, and clients is not positive. Because I work in the system everyday, and have to consider the results of every application, situation, scenario, circumstances, I can say that we are nowhere near seeing the total impact of the legislation on households.

[ProSense]

8. Most recent Gallup poll

U.S. Uninsured Rate Continues to Fall
Uninsured rate drops most among lower-income and black Americans







http://www.gallup.com/poll/167798/uninsured-rate-continues-fall.aspx

[Lex]

9. "The poll did not ask in what way the law hurt or helped . . . "

And most who replied negatively were Republican.