If The Latest Reuters/Ipsos Poll Is Accurate, Republicans Hope For ObamaCrapCare Being A Winning Argument Is Toast. The GOP Will Lose This Fall If This Is Their ONLY Argument.

Americans increasingly prefer Democrats on healthcare: Reuters/Ipsos poll

 

By Gabriel DebenedettiApril 15, 2014 6:08 PM

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Americans Increasingly Prefer Democrats On Healthcare: Reuters/Ipsos Poll

By Gabriel Debenedetti

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans increasingly think Democrats have a better plan for healthcare than Republicans, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted after the White House announced that more people than expected had signed up for the "Obamacare" health plan.

Nearly one-third of respondents in the online survey released on Tuesday said they prefer Democrats' plan, policy or approach to healthcare, compared to just 18 percent for Republicans. This marks both an uptick in support for Democrats and a slide for Republicans since a similar poll in February.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius stepped down last week after overseeing the law's rollout, including the HealthCare.gov website's tumultuous first weeks, when many users were unable to access the system to purchase or research their insurance options.

But a surge of late sign-ups for health coverage pushed the number to over 7.1 million people by the end of March, and Sebelius said before resigning that more than 7.5 million were expected to sign up this year.

"In the last couple of weeks, as the exchanges hit their goals, news coverage has been more positive and the support of the Democratic Party on this issue has rebounded," said Ipsos pollster Chris Jackson.

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"It's not that independents are moving their way, it's that Democrats who had previously been a little bit ambivalent in their support are coming back to the party," he said.

One-fifth of respondents said they did not know which party had a better plan, and another fifth said neither party did.

Republicans and Democrats are facing off over President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law ahead of November's congressional elections, when Republicans are looking to reclaim control of the U.S. Senate and bolster their advantage in the House of Representatives.

Opposition to the Affordable Care Act is a central theme in many individual campaigns, and national Republicans have promoted ending the law as the most important issue at play in the elections.

While Democrats have struggled with the law's unpopularity, Republicans have faced criticism that they do not have any reasonable alternative to Obama's healthcare plan.

"Democrats have not managed to have a huge lead over Republicans so much as Republicans have managed to damage their own position and stay behind Democrats," Jackson said. "That's because people don't view the Republican Party as standing for any particular healthcare system."

In a February poll, just around one-quarter of respondents said Democrats had a better plan. That number increased to 31 percent in March and 32 percent in April.

Republicans' healthcare plans had the backing of 24 percent of respondents in the March survey, 6 percentage points higher than their April support.

Ipsos polled 799 Americans online from April 6 to 15. The poll had a credibility interval - a measure of precision - of 4 percentage points.

(Editing by Alistair Bell and Eric Walsh)g

A Client Story

A client of mine with six children tried to get coverage from the ObamaCrapCare website. Initially, this person had gone on the estimator and was told that the subsidy would be over $300, so they applied.  After being kicked off the site four times, re-entering all the information again,  answering stupid questions (for example: Does your son need maternity coverage? Does your son have a job that offers insurance?  --The child is 3 years old) this client gets to the end and is told that the subsidy will be $34!  Oh, let's not forget that they spent 8 hours getting to this point!

They were applying to save a few bucks over their Cobra coverage.. Obviously this plan does not save them any money so they will be staying on the alternative coverage until later this year when it expires.

This event occurred this week, January 8, 2014, not three months ago.  It only tells me that the website still has major problems and we the people are being misled. 

We can only conclude thatObamaCrapCare aka Outrageously Expensive ObamaCrapCare was designed to end all private insurance in this country by poor design, misleading answers, extensive delays and yet to come, insurance company denials. The denials will be due to the fact that the government is not forwarding the information to the insurance companies and therefore they will assume they are not providing coverage for the patient. 

In the next 11 months all we are going to hear from the government is that the website is working fine but the insurance companies are not cooperating, denying coverage and must be taken out of the equation. Right after the election, it will be announced that all persons with individual coverage will be transitioned to Medicare (or some other government entity) and all private insurance for individuals will end. Then sometime in 2015, all insurance coverage (save those for unions, government employees, congressional staff and Congressmen/women) will move over to this new entity.

We may be wrong on the timing, however, it is going to happen whether the American people want it or not!

Conservative Tom