Obamacare: to know it is to hate it
As time goes by, the public dislikes Obamacare more and more.
The trend isn’t just with one group, it’s across the board. Democrats, Independents, and Republicans not only continue to dislike the law but increasingly dislike it. It’s true among all incomes, races, and ethnic groups. If Pelosi was right that they had to pass the law to find out what’s in it, the more Americans find out the more they don’t approve.
An interesting finding in a recent poll Kaiser poll is that personal experience with Obamacare has been bad:
Kaiser asked respondents, “So far, would you say the health care law has directly helped you and your family, directly hurt you and your family, or has it not had a direct impact?” Fifteen percent said Obamacare has directly helped them, while 28 percent said it has directly hurt them, and 56 percent said it has had no effect.
The number who said Obamacare helped them ticked up one point in the last two months, while the number who said Obamacare hurt them went up four points. And the number who were not affected went down four points. That suggests Obamacare is directly touching more and more people ”” and hurting more than it helps…
The number of people who say their opinion of Obamacare is based on their personal experience is rising ”” 23 percent in February of this year, 26 percent in June. The number who say their opinion is shaped by what they’ve learned from friends and family is also growing ”” 18 percent in February, 22 percent in June. And the number who say their opinion is based on what they see in the media is shrinking: 44 percent in February, 37 percent in June.
So more and more, people are basing their opinion of Obamacare on their own experience of those around them, and not on what they’ve seen on cable TV or heard on talk radio. And disapproval is going up.
Even for an individual who is helped personally by Obamacare in financial terms, that doesn’t mean that he/she will approve in general of the law. I wouldn’t have, even had it helped me, because I don’t make political decisions based on whether I save a buck. I try to look at the larger picture. In the case of Obamacare, the larger picture for a lot of people includes friends and relatives who have been hurt. And until now, most people haven’t been affected personally. Just wait till Obamacare starts affecting employment-based insurance more and more. Then the proverbial excrement will hit.
And there is one person to blame for it: Nebraska’s Ben Nelson.
Cornhead –
Let’s not forget that paragon of disgrace, Arlen Specter.
And in the House, a very special shout out goes to Bart Stupak.
So much ugliness went into making this ugly law, it is hard to wrap the mind around. Someone should make a kind of Bayeux Tapestry about it fashioned from bleached, burned pieces of American flag, hang it on a wall and sell it for a hundred million in SOHO. It’s surely disgusting, soulless and absurd enough to qualify as modern art.
Just my opinion.
I wonder if Joe Biden still thinks of O-care as a “big f***ing deal”?
A lot of people are to blame for Obamacare. Obama, sixty Democrat senators, “pro-life” traitors in the House, the media, and a public too stupid to notice that : NO people are not laying dead in the streets from lack of healthcare. And don’t forget the Republicans who put up a good fight until Christmas Eve. Couldn’t let the delaying tactics that were working interfere with their holiday.
“Just wait till Obamacare starts affecting employment-based insurance more and more. Then the proverbial excrement will hit.” neo
Only one of the many factors that will ‘mug’ liberal low-info voters over the coming years. They’ve ‘turned their back on the fire and will now have to sit on their blisters’.
From no more school bake sales to rampant disease, from huge increases in health care premiums to skyrocketing utility bills, from a jobless economy teetering on the brink of collapse into a new depression to the coming flurry of jihadist terrorist attacks, America is about to reap the consequences of its support for the left.
Obamacare will, if ever fully implemented, rain destruction upon a potemkin economy.
I wish for nothing more than the implementation of the employer mandate. That’s a blow from which the Democrats will not recover in a long while.
Obama knows that. That’s why it will never be implemented while he’s in office.
But that also can be used to our advantage: ask Democrats why the employer mandate isn’t in effect, if Obamacare is so great. Watch them squirm.
Support evil and get the Wages of Sin.
Matt, for my money, the 0-care scheme is already contracting the economy.
Instead of reporting the truth, the BLS is conjuring up growth stats in front of the election — just as was done in 2012, if you’ll recall.
The contraction is impacting Wall Street at this time.
The nation’s working capital is being seized up by the Medical-Pharma-Insurance-Attorney cartel.
That’s enough friction to round off the gears of the economy.