Polls: Support for Obamacare at all-time high

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Bill Fishlore

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Support for Obamacare is at an all-time high, according to two surveys released this week as Republican leaders continue to press the case for repeal amid fierce resistance at many town halls.

The latest Health Tracking Poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 48% of Americans view the law favorably, compared to 42% who have an unfavorable view. This is the highest level of favorability measured in more than 60 Kaiser Health Tracking Polls conducted since 2010.
The boost comes largely from independents, half of whom view Obamacare favorably compared to 39% who don't. Nearly three-quarters of Democrats continue to view it favorably, while about the same share of Republicans have an unfavorable view.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/24/politics/pew-survey-obamacare-support-record-high/
 
The Trump cult will just run away from threads like this.

After 7 years of screaming Obamacare .. suddenly they're mute.

They have no idea how to replace it.

Perhaps they'll replace Obamacare with the ACA.
 
Oh, they will respond, they are eagerly waiting/anticipating the next tweetRage for answers/lies........
 
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What raises the red flags (irony noted) is the Republican methodology:

a) Repeal ACA first: TOP PRIORITY

b) Then, later on, replace it with something -better-.

The Republicans are just full of those aggrandizing adjectives. Trump is going to "Make America Great Again". That will be some feat, as we were the greatest nation on Earth throughout the 8 year Obama administration.

The Republicans are clearly in disarray on it. I'm not sure Spicer, Ryan, McConnell etc have the same thing in mind at all.

On Obamacare ACA

“It will be repeal & replace. It will be essentially simultaneously. It will be various segments you understand, but will most likely be on the same day or the same week.” President Elect Trump at his only post election victory news conference in New York 17/01/11 / FNS

After challenge to VP Elect Pence from Chris Wallace, Pence added:
“... you're seeing an incredible increase in premiums on Americans. Obamacare has failed. We're going to repeal it. But at the same time we're gunna pass the kind of legislation that will lower the cost of health insurance without growing the size of government. I would anticipate in the first hundred days that uh we'll deliver on that promise to the American People.” VP Elect Pence 17/01/15 on FNS

Bull
oney!

For those trying to keep score at home, the Republican strategy intended by our congressional Republican leadership is:

1) Take away ACA first, thereby driving up demand.

2) Then after the need intensifies, slip in something different.

I have no proof they will.
But if they do, I have no proof it'll be significantly better.

In any case, if they really wanted to BENEFIT the tax payer, why not implement the Republican plan, and during the overlaps, allow the citizen to decide if they want Obamacare, or Trumpcare?

You know why the Republicans aren't doing it that way as well as I do. If they did, it would expose Republicans to being bested by Obama yet once again. And they've gotten tired of that.
 
blackascoal said:
The Trump cult will just run away from threads like this.

After 7 years of screaming Obamacare .. suddenly they're mute.

They have no idea how to replace it.

Perhaps they'll replace Obamacare with the ACA.
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After 7 years of screaming Obamacare, especially from Trump during the entire campaign,....

TRUMP IS ELECTED...ENTIRE CONGRESS GOES REPUBLICAN.....

and you can't see a conflict with the 'poll' here ?
 
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I can.
Republicans may claim massive victory.

BUT !!

It's a thin and fragile victory at that.

a) Trump lost the vote. It's the election he won.

b) Recent polls indicate President Trump's national support started at or near record lows, and has been plummeting since.

c) On congressional cooperation, the current thought is that Speaker Ryan and ML McConnell may cooperate w/ Trump where their intentions overlap. Where they do not, it seems the old guarde are prepared to block Trump.
 
NOVA said:
After 7 years of screaming Obamacare, especially from Trump during the entire campaign,....

TRUMP IS ELECTED...ENTIRE CONGRESS GOES REPUBLICAN.....

and you can't see a conflict with the 'poll' here ?
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:0) I see the conflict you're having with addressing the question of where the fuck is your plan. 7 years not long enough to produce one?

Try this .. don't come up with a plan.

See what happens.
 
blackascoal said:
:0) I see the conflict you're having with addressing the question of where the fuck is your plan. 7 years not long enough to produce one?

Try this .. don't come up with a plan.

See what happens.
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Boehner is even busting them out on the ACA! Lol
 
blackascoal said:
:0) I see the conflict you're having with addressing the question of where the fuck is your plan. 7 years not long enough to produce one?

Try this .. don't come up with a plan.

See what happens.
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Like you, I'm not privy to the plan, neither were we informed of the ACA plan....
Like someone once said, you gotta pass it to find out whats in it.....

and like the architect of the federal healthcare law said a "lack of transparency" and the "stupidity of the American voter" helped Congress approve ObamaCare.
Keeping in mind that didn't get one Republican vote...
Says a lot don't it.....
 
NOVA said:
Like you, I'm not privy to the plan, neither were we informed of the ACA plan....
Like someone once said, you gotta pass it to find out whats in it.....

and like the architect of the federal healthcare law said a "lack of transparency" and the "stupidity of the American voter" helped Congress approve ObamaCare.
Keeping in mind that didn't get one Republican vote...
Says a lot don't it.....
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.. and I hope that whatever plan republicans produce, it doesn't get a single democratic vote. I'm good with that.

Obamacare did lack transparency .. and I heavily criticized Obama about that.

"the stupidity of the American voter" .. Trump is the 'president' .. nuff said about that.
 
Republicans finally show their hand on Obamacare repeal: It could be worse but it’s still a total mess
Republicans unveil a "repeal and repair" plan that will make a decent system worse and should energize Democrats

Congressional Republicans, led by House Speaker Paul Ryan, are about to walk into their own Obamacare propeller. As we’ve discussed for several months now, the Trump administration and the Republicans continue to quietly and desperately formulate a way to repeal and replace the increasingly popular Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as “Obamacare”), even though there’s no way to do it without stripping away health care from millions of Americans.

Further scrambling the GOP’s repeal mission is the reality that many individual sections of the law are inextricably linked to other sections. For example, Republicans are determined to repeal the least popular aspect of the law: the individual mandate. But the mandate happens to be linked to the law’s most popular section: covering patients with pre-existing conditions. The insurance lobby accepted the latter solely because of the former — the mandate that forces everyone to buy insurance during annual open enrollment windows. Insurers have rightfully noted that repealing the mandate allows customers to buy insurance only when they’re sick or injured and then drop coverage when they’ve recovered, thus scamming the system.

Nevertheless, the Republicans have*unveiled their new plan for replacing Obamacare, and it’s just about what we’ve expected. Simply put, poor people will be screwed and millions will lose their insurance coverage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/...ld-redirect-money-from-poor-to-rich.html?_r=1

Republican Health Proposal Would Redirect Money From Poor to Rich
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/...ld-redirect-money-from-poor-to-rich.html?_r=1
 
Bill Fishlore said:
Support for Obamacare is at an all-time high, according to two surveys released this week as Republican leaders continue to press the case for repeal amid fierce resistance at many town halls.

The latest Health Tracking Poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 48% of Americans view the law favorably, compared to 42% who have an unfavorable view. This is the highest level of favorability measured in more than 60 Kaiser Health Tracking Polls conducted since 2010.
The boost comes largely from independents, half of whom view Obamacare favorably compared to 39% who don't. Nearly three-quarters of Democrats continue to view it favorably, while about the same share of Republicans have an unfavorable view.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/24/politics/pew-survey-obamacare-support-record-high/
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How can anyone favor a healthcare plan that uses the IRS to punish the uninsured? I mean besides the pervert masochists holding the Democratic Party hostage?
 
No easy way out

The GOP is in a tight spot because they have made a promise that they can't keep. There is no magic plan that will keep all the things people like about ACA while repealing Obamacare. The party has tried for seven years and there are substantive reasons why it can't be done. In the end, the Obamacare repeal flap is going to be like the Social Security repeal flaps. Every time one is tried, it ends up a net loss for the GOP.

As he was with his investors in Atlantic City, Trump has cleverly left himself an escape hatch on the whole healthcare mess. He has promised to keep all the popular features of Obamacare. He has promised not to touch Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid either. If the Republican Party can come up with some politically popular changes in any of these entitlements, Trump will leap on board and claim victory for himself. If, as seems much more likely, the GOP comes up with some cockamamie plan along the lines of Dubbya's privatizing Social Security, Trump will step nimbly off the sinking ship and leave the party's fiscal conservatives to deal with the Democratic sharks on their own. No matter what happens, President Trump will be looking out for Number One.
 
Granule said:
How can anyone favor a healthcare plan that uses the IRS to punish the uninsured? I mean besides the pervert masochists holding the Democratic Party hostage?
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The bigger question to me was always how the hell did it pass in the Supreme Court ?

It was written and passed as a big lie and they ignored that....it was unconstitutional from the second it passed congress....then

the SC actually when out of their way to fix it during SC arguments.....
 
If so many didn't rely on this for their life & health, it would be kind of comedic to watch Trump & the GOP right now.

Remember when they were going to repeal and replace on "Day 1"?

Just a lot of empty rhetoric, as usual.
 
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