Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Majority of Americans Support ACA

MinnPost Majority Supports ACA  I like Eric's first lines...
"In the category “You don’t miss the water till the well runs dry,” a pretty solid majority of Americans tell Gallup they approve of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). As recently as Election Day, disapprovers of the ACA outnumbered approvers by 53-42 percent, according the Gallup organization. The act has not improved in any way since then, nor have Republicans stopped calling it a disaster that is imploding or exploding or reploding. But this week, in the latest Gallup measure of the exact same question, approval of the act is up an impressive 13 points to 55 percent, the highest the ACA has ever scored, while disapproval fell 12 points to 41 percent, a new low. "
I was wondering what it would take to get the majority behind it?  I mean it raised taxes and costs significantly on many, but then it sprinkled that money around like pixie dust on the lower income folks...  What is not to like for many people?  It will be interesting if the GOP will see the change and adapt their plan or if they will keep fighting the ever warming water...

3 comments:

Sean said...

What the last few months have demonstrated is that the GOP was selling snake oil on health care -- and now the people have caught on to it. You can't cover everybody for everything and have it cost less and have more choice all at the same time. You have to make tradeoffs, and people didn't like the tradeoffs the AHCA made -- which was to reduce spending by kicking millions of people off of their health insurance.

Sean said...

To the point now that 40% of Trump voters, 58% of independents, and 60% of the country overall (in a new Economist poll) favors Medicare-for-all.

John said...

I think Trump may have been selling sake oil regarding healthcare, however I think the GOP has consistently been selling personal responsibility.

Unfortunately personal responsibility does not seem to be too popular in our modern world. The liberal mantra of "why take personal responsibility for your life when you can have the government seize other people's money and give it to you" seems to keep getting more popular.

It is unfortunate for the long term success of the USA...