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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmericans opposition to repealing Obamacare grows, particularly among Deplorables
A growing majority of Americans including a sharply increasing number of Republicans oppose an outright repeal of Obamacare, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll, signaling trouble for Republicans still hoping to dismantle the 2010 health care law.
Efforts to repeal and replace the law collapsed last week, after GOP lawmakers couldnt agree on an alternative health care system.
Sixty-five percent of registered voters either want to see the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, maintained as is or strengthened, a seven-point uptick over a February McClatchy-Marist poll that asked the same question. The new poll was conducted between March 22 and 27. Republicans ended last weeks effort to pass a health care plan on March 24.
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ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)Now that people realize Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing, perspectives are changing, or so it appears.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)That 24 million people will lose their health care under the republican plan. That may have had something to do with it too.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)24 million is more like it.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)I think that's when it hit home. ..because yes ,they would be affected by this, not just the poors.
It seems that a lot of them didn't even realize what protections they had until now.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)But, because BHO had this melanin problem, they hated the program because his name was attached to it. Now, the personal impact outweighs BHO's melanin, and they start to change their mind.
Also, interesting. But, it's not about racism.
WoonTars
(694 posts)...isn't it? It's like the folks that voted for Dump and then have a spouse/family member deported...