Most NJ Residents Want To Keep Obamacare Law, Poll Says

[Playinghardball]

Now that Obamacare is here and the first enrollment period has closed, a growing majority of New Jerseyans say want to keep the health care law and fix its flaws, according to a Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press Poll released today. About 60 percent of the poll’s participants said they want the law improved, while 7 percent said Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, is fine as it is, but all of them, 67 percent, would oppose an effort to repeal it, according to the poll’s findings.

That’s 8 points higher than the response from a national poll by Kaiser Health poll last month. According to February statistics from the Obama administration, 74,000 New Jerseyans signed up for private health insurance through the online exchange and 123,000 enrolled through Medicaid. Enrollment closed March 31 for 2014, but will reopen in November for the following year.

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[Laxman]

1. Of Course We Do...

at least I do! Three years without insurance. Three years waking up in the middle of the night hoping nothing happens to me, my wife or my kids. Watching my kids play sports- hoping a little bit extra that they didn't get hurt. Hoping there's nothing wrong with me that I didn't know about. Worrying that my wife hadn't had a mammogram or visited an ob/gyn in 3 years. Every pain. Every time I didn't feel just right. Hope its nothing wrong. All that just a bad memory.

I had insurance for over 30 years until I lost my last job. Self employed, I couldn't afford 1,200/month. Now my family is insured again. Of course I want to keep it. Chris Christie aside-we're not stupid here in NJ (for the most part!)