CNN Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose Obamacare
Anti-Obamacare protesters demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2012.
Monday, 27 May 2013 10:39 AM
Fifty-four percent of those polled oppose Obamacare, while 43 percent of those polled say they support the law as it stands. Both numbers are relatively unchanged since the bill was passed in 2010.
Of those polled, 35 percent say the policy is too liberal while 16 percent say it’s not liberal enough.
"Not surprisingly, the Obama coalition is most supportive of Obamacare," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "A majority of younger Americans favor the new healthcare law; support among other age groups falls as low as 31 percent among senior citizens. Only a third of whites support the law, compared to six in 10 non-whites. Obamacare also wins majority support in urban areas and in the Northeast, the bluest region of the country."
The CNN/ORC International poll released Monday was conducted on May 17 and 18 and comes on the heels of a House vote won by Republicans to repeal the contentious law. The poll included the views of 923 adults with a margin of error of three percent.
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I interpret this poll as nothing more than a measure of how effective the Republican propaganda campaign against Obamacare has been. Most Americans are either uninformed or misinformed about the law.
ReplyDeleteSit down. The following poll result will blow your mind….
"A whopping 42 percent of Americans do not know that the Affordable Care Act is, in fact, law. Included in that 42 percent -- 12 percent believe it has been repealed by Congress, 7 percent think the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it, and 23 percent are unsure of its status, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll."
http://www.cafemom.com/group/99198/forums/read/18446427/Many_Americans_shockingly_misinformed_about_Obamacare_poll_finds_ME_INCLUDED
There is strong public support for the contents of Obamacare, but they don't know the facts about what is in the law! Read this article…
http://www.policymic.com/articles/30657/obamacare-on-3-year-anniversary-public-is-still-misinformed-on-law
It concludes…
"This may be part of the reason why so many Americans support major elements of the health care reform law, yet remain opposed to Obamacare as a whole. But more importantly, this is a symptom of a much larger problem. The ability of a group of people to successfully misrepresent reality underscores a deep, pervasive problem within our society. Have political distortions become so severe that we can no longer separate fact from fiction?"
--David
And your point is? 58% knew the ObamaCrapCare is still the law of the land. If you ever watch Jay Leno and his street walking questioning of people, this does not surprise me. However, if you asked the same people who was the winner of "dancing with the Stars", I will bet the numbers will be very much the same. 58% will know and 23% will not know--which would include me!!
ReplyDeleteAs far as the second quote, it is written by a Junior at Wayne State who I am sure is a supporter of Obama, so so much for her objectivity. BTW her opinion on "death panels" is not accurate. They might not use those words, however, there will be panels established to determine the advisability of approving certain procedures. The analysis will be done on cost/benefit and older people will not win that battle regardless of their health status prior to needing the procedure. Say a 75 year old, active, working man needs a heart transplant or heart bypass, would those dollars be better spent on a 35 year old that needs the same operation? From a dollars and sense, yes and that will be the analysis. It will not matter that the 35 year old is a drug abuser!
I gave you that link so that you can see the data, not the conclusions of the author. I should have asked whether you think the Kaiser Foundation is some kind of Obama "stooge" that rigs their survey methodology to favor Obamacare. Then I could have just given you the direct link to their tracking poll on Obamacare. Their survey shows that half the public doesn't know even the most basic provisions of the law (percentages who know the following are in ACA):
ReplyDeleteSubsidies 56%
Medicaid expansion 54%
Employer mandate (50+ employees) 53%
Health plan decision appeals 51%
Guaranteed issue 51%
Tax credits for small business 49%
Increase payroll tax on upper income 43%
No cost-sharing for preventive services 37%
Medical loss ratio rebates from United Healthcare 35%
When the other half finds out they are getting all these benefits, public opinion of Obamacare will improve. I will bet on that, if you like!
Age of patient will be only one of many factors that the panel will consider. If the surgery has little chance of working, it won't matter that the patient is 35 years old. I don't know where a 35 yr. old chronic alcoholic would rank compared to an otherwise healthy 75 yr. old on the priority list for a liver transplant. No doubt, there will be disagreements in some cases, but it is still better than Medicare spending $500,000 on a guaranteed terminal cancer patient. That is what we need to avoid to bring down the costs of health care and make the most productive use of limited resources.
--David
Tom, the other thing to note about the CNN poll is that, although 54% oppose ACA, 16% of those opposing say they oppose because it doesn't go far enough toward the single-payer or at least have a public option. As you know, I would oppose Obamacare if I could choose the Senate version that had the public option. So, persons like you who oppose ACA because you want to go backwards to what we had before ACA are only 38% of those polled. This obviously includes ALL Republicans who oppose it because they knee-jerk oppose anything associated with Obama or else for purely ideological reasons without accurate knowledge of what is in the law.
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