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GOP Health Care Bill Is More Unpopular Than Obamacare Ever Was

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Crabtownboy, Mar 24, 2017.

  1. Crabtownboy

    Crabtownboy Well-Known Member
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    President Barack Obama’s health care law hasn’t always been beloved by the public. But it’s never been as unpopular as the Republican bill now intended to destroy it, according to the latest polling.

    When the Affordable Care Act was signed in March 2010, after months of debate, about 42 percent of the public approved, according to HuffPost Pollster’s aggregate, with about 50 percent disapproving ― a level of discontent that proved to be bad news for Democrats and for Obama. At the law’s lowest ebb, in 2013, support fell to about 38 percent.

    That level of support, however, seems downright robust in comparison with the pessimism that’s greeted the Republican bill, known as the American Health Care Act. Reactions to the proposal have been overwhelmingly negative, with most surveys finding less than one-third of the public in favor of the bill. Support reached a new nadir Thursday in a Quinnipiac poll, which found just 17 percent of voters expressing approval, and only 6 percent approving strongly.

    Based on current polling, “it does look like it is significantly less popular than the ACA was in early 2010,” Liz Hamel, the director of public opinion and survey research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said in an email. She added that the public had been following the Obamacare “back-and-forth” for many months before that legislation passed, “which is different than the situation we’re in now with the AHCA, with things moving much more quickly.”

    But the new GOP health care bill appears to be on the wrong end of an even wider intensity gap. In the latest Quinnipiac poll, 80 percent of Democratic voters disapprove, with 69 percent disapproving strongly. But offsetting support from the GOP isn’t there. Only 41 percent of Republicans approve, and just 20 percent approve strongly. In the most recent HuffPostYouGov poll, Clinton voters are 59 points more likely to strongly oppose the GOP bill than Trump voters are to strongly favor it.

    GOP Health Care Bill Is More Unpopular Than Obamacare Ever Was | The Huffington Post
     
  2. MennoSota

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    Just raise taxes to over 50% of a person's salary and give out free health care like a guy in a van giving out free candy. It's the socialist solution.
     
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    Hank, LOL, what a great answer.
     
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    :)
     
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    You do realize that it is really hard to get back a massive entilement like Obama Care was?
     
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    You're right, it's pure communism: you start with free cardiac care and quickly end up with the collectivisation of agriculture and invasion of Czechoslovakia
     
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    That's because it started off as if it were a communist dictate:

    "we have to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it"


    HankD
     
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    "President Barack Obama’s White House spent $77 million on advertising and marketing Obamacare during the last few months of the administration" - LINK
    That certainly made a difference in Obamacare's popularity.
    And btw if we go into the WayBack machine, we see that 'HillaryCare' was highly unpopular, and failed to pass in 1993.
     
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    We have no indication that the majority who voted for Barry-care, ever read the nearly 2,000 pages, like their Speaker Nancy instructed them to VOTE for it and read it later!

    But apparently, Democrats who can't find a ride out of a hurricane or to the voting polls managed to hustle on down to the library and read both laws to make a valid comparison.

    Tells us more what Huffy Puffy has to say, we're almost hoodwinked....J/K :Sick
     
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    That's a total falsehood. It also ignores the fact that a 'finished' bill never hit the floor.

    New CNN Poll: 59% Oppose Obamacare


    New CNN Poll: 59% Oppose Obamacare
    Rob Bluey / @RobertBluey / March 22, 2010


    A new CNN Opinion Research poll, conducted over the weekend as the House debated Obamacare, finds that 59 percent of Americans now stand opposed to the health care legislation in Congress. Just 39 percent of the poll’s 1,030 respondents said they favored the bill.
     
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    It's also called a lie.
     
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    Me thinks crabby needs to be reminded of the difference between a bill and a law.
     
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  14. HankD

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    Fantastic M!
    :)
    HankD
     
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