The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that over half the public has an unfavorable view of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in July, up eight percentage points since last month, while the share viewing the law favorably held steady at just under four in ten. A solid majority continues to prefer that Congress work to improve the law rather than repeal and replace it.
The uptick in negative views comes at a time when Americans report hearing more negative than positive things about the ACA in advertising and personal conversations, and when large shares of the public want leaders in Washington to pay more attention to other issues like the economy and jobs, the federal budget deficit, education, and immigration.There's also this finding, which shows just how effective the anti-Obamacare narratives have been with a traditional media spending more time on the political fight than on the substance of the law.
Previous tracking polls have found that misperceptions about the ACA are common among the public, and more than four years after the law’s passage this continues to be the case. The July poll finds that fewer than four in ten Americans (37 percent) are aware that people who got new health insurance under the ACA had a choice between private health plans, while about a quarter (26 percent) think the newly insured were enrolled in a single government plan and about four in ten (38 percent) say they don’t know enough to answer the question.
we often talk of republicans trying to deny health care to Americans but what about other Americans doing it to others and themselves that is the epitome of stupidity. bet this is one of those things where you ask one protester why they hate ObamaCares after they give you the standard republican talking point you realize they don't know that is really scary. this reminds me of the old toothless guy asked why he hated Obama his response, "because his names Obama", then he looks at the reporter like "didn't you know"? most say the hate ObamaCares but love ACA bet they fall for the cheap liquor in the expensive bottle too.
just as ignorance is no excuse for the law deliberately misleading and misinforming is no excuse for trying to get votes.
next big revolution, when the republican base wakes and realizes they are the victims of their vote those they elected like those 2010 jobs promise are gone with the wind.
