Friday, March 20, 2015

Obamacare's public support increases while Supreme Court ponders its fate


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/19/1371923/-Obamacare-s-public-support-increases-while-Supreme-Court-ponders-its-fate?detail=email

A demonstrator in favor of the Affordable Care Act walks with a sign in front of the Supreme Court in Washington March 4, 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh a second major case, King v. Burwell, targeting President Barack Obama's healthcare law on We
The approval gap for Obamacare has narrowed to the closest margin in over two years, according to the latest Kaiser Foundation survey. Forty-three percent still disapprove of the law, 41 percent approve, and those numbers are still strikingly partisan; "Most Republicans voice an unfavorable opinion (74 percent), most Democrats voice a favorable opinion (65 percent), and independents are more divided (37 favorable, 47 unfavorable)." All the same, keeping and/or expanding the law remains more popular than repealing it, 46 to 40 percent.
And 62 percent believe that a Supreme Court ruling striking down subsidies in the states using the federal health insurance exchange would be damaging to the country, while the usual 23 percent of hard-core Republican voters think it would be good for the country. But, in the states that use the federal exchange and would thus lose those subsidies, about 60 percent of Republicans, 70 percent of independents and 80 percent of Democrats believe their states should do something to restore the subsidies if the court strikes them down.
And as for Justices Alito's and Scalia's big idea that it's okay for the court to gut the law because Congress will fix it? The public has been paying a lot more attention; 80 percent say Congress can't come together to fix it, and 78 percent say Republicans can't work with President Obama to fix it.

Bar chart showing public opinion on whether congress would work with the president to fix Obamacare if the court struck down subsidies in states using the federal exchange.

the court is a wishy washy place were democracy and laws benefiting the people and country go to die or get bent badly.  it should be a no brainer if this were indeed the greatest country in the world because they like every other country pretty much looks out for their people will republicans kook down on them as if their looking out for the people was what's that word an oh ABOMINATION.

keep in mind whatever they get passed will not differentiate between Progressive voters and republican White voters we all get assigned to the same barrels, where is you confidence? recognize