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Despite Obamacare’s unpopularity, health care may still be winning issue for Dems
Despite Obamacare’s unpopularity, health care may still be winning issue for Dems
By Greg Sargent
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There’s no denying that public opinion did not turn around on health reform as many of us predicted it would. But Clifford Young, the managing director for Ipsos polling, has an interesting new piece up that argues that the questions surrounding public opinion on health refom are much more complicated than they first appear.
Young points to Ipsos numbers that find the individual provisions in the law still remain overwhelmingly popular. The upshot is that nine of the bill’s major provisions — from the ban on discrimination against people with preexisting conditions, to the creation of insurance exchanges, to the extension of insurance to young adults up to the age of 26 — are supported by anywhere from 67 percent to 87 percent of Americans.
The individual mandate, meanwhile, is what remains overwhelmingly unpopular, with only 35 percent supporting it. And a majority of Americans oppose the overall bill, too, though many oppose it because it didn’t go far enough. How to make sense of all this? Young concludes:
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Mitt Romney has vowed to repeal all of Obamacare “on day one” of his presidency, meaning he’d repeal all of the bill’s overwhelmingly popular provisions, too. Whatever the political ramifications of the possibility that the Supreme Court will strike down the law, at some point the presidential campaign will have to turn to the topic of what Romney would replace all of these popular provisions with, and as we’ve seen, he’s struggled mightily to answer that question in a coherent way in the past.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/despite-obamacares-unpopularity-health-care-may-still-be-winning-issue-for-dems/2012/04/26/gIQAlgbBjT_blog.html
By Greg Sargent
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There’s no denying that public opinion did not turn around on health reform as many of us predicted it would. But Clifford Young, the managing director for Ipsos polling, has an interesting new piece up that argues that the questions surrounding public opinion on health refom are much more complicated than they first appear.
Young points to Ipsos numbers that find the individual provisions in the law still remain overwhelmingly popular. The upshot is that nine of the bill’s major provisions — from the ban on discrimination against people with preexisting conditions, to the creation of insurance exchanges, to the extension of insurance to young adults up to the age of 26 — are supported by anywhere from 67 percent to 87 percent of Americans.
The individual mandate, meanwhile, is what remains overwhelmingly unpopular, with only 35 percent supporting it. And a majority of Americans oppose the overall bill, too, though many oppose it because it didn’t go far enough. How to make sense of all this? Young concludes:
On fuzzy issues like healthcare reform, we may not be measuring what we actually think we are measuring...when it comes to the healthcare reform, the devil truly is in the detail.
...all reform initiatives are ultimately defined by their weakest link. Here we had a large omnibus bill which included multiple items. For the most part, Americans support the items in the bill and only significantly oppose the individual mandate. However, this one part of the bill has come to define its entirety.
...all reform initiatives are ultimately defined by their weakest link. Here we had a large omnibus bill which included multiple items. For the most part, Americans support the items in the bill and only significantly oppose the individual mandate. However, this one part of the bill has come to define its entirety.
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Mitt Romney has vowed to repeal all of Obamacare “on day one” of his presidency, meaning he’d repeal all of the bill’s overwhelmingly popular provisions, too. Whatever the political ramifications of the possibility that the Supreme Court will strike down the law, at some point the presidential campaign will have to turn to the topic of what Romney would replace all of these popular provisions with, and as we’ve seen, he’s struggled mightily to answer that question in a coherent way in the past.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/despite-obamacares-unpopularity-health-care-may-still-be-winning-issue-for-dems/2012/04/26/gIQAlgbBjT_blog.html
This has been the case all along, and similar to Kaiser's numbers.
The case Sargent makes is supported by the fact that two Blue Dogs who opposed the health care law lost their primaries this week.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002607114
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All the for profit "health" insurance lobbyists with their suitcases of cash for future Congresses and Administrations not to mention Citizens United steroid drinking commercial buyers from that industry are hiding inside, waiting to influence future elections and law diminishing or eliminating the good parts of the ACA, while increasing the punitive penalty measures, with the new found wealth from their captured clientele.
Who would have thunk it? 