Posted on 10/23/2013 6:16:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PRINCETON, NJ -- Despite the highly publicized technical issues that have plagued the government's health insurance exchange website that went live on Oct. 1, Americans' views of the Affordable Care Act are slightly more positive now than they were in August. Forty-five percent now approve of the law, while 50% disapprove, for a net approval score of -5. In June and August, net approval was slightly lower, at -8.
These results come from a Gallup poll conducted Oct. 18-20, a few days after the end of the recent government shutdown -- which centered on partisan debates over funding the healthcare law -- and as media coverage of the poorly functioning health exchange sites increased. The results suggest that the problems with the health exchanges have not negatively affected Americans' overall views of the law, at least to this point.
While Americans' approval of the healthcare law is slightly higher than earlier this year, other Gallup research shows that the majority of Americans would still like Congress to modify the ACA in some way -- repealing it entirely, scaling it back, or expanding it.
Democrats More Likely Now Than in August to Approve of the ACA
The problems with the rollout of the health exchanges have given Republicans new reasons to criticize the law. However, the percentage of Republicans who disapprove of the law is already so high that it would be difficult for it to rise further. Eighty-six percent now disapprove, little changed from August.
On-the-other-hand, President Barack_Obama has taken to the airwaves to defend his signature legislation and to urge Americans to be patient as his administration works out the technical issues on the health exchange website--and Democrats may be listening. Democrats' approval of the law has risen to 83%, up 12 percentage points since August....
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LOL! What’s to “approve”? It’s completely non-functional!
I see they asked about the ACA. Had they said Obamacare, the numbers would have been different. I think it was Jimmy Kimmel that demonstrated that low infos don’t know they are they same animal.
Cant get it but support it. There must be a big pasture near by....I can smell the...on this one
Ask yourself this.
Do liberals believe these polls?
Begich, Pryor, Landrieu, Hagan, Manchin, and Shaheen sure as hell dont.
They’re spending millions (of our tax dollars) advertising how wonderful it is, & getting lots of celebrities to extoll its virtues. Why shouldn’t we expect the low-info types to by into the BS?
People can approve of Obamacare until the cows come home. It is still going to destroy both health care and the economy.
The idiots infesting our country these days are big into losers and scams. The idiots living here are the ones who keep the Nigerian online scams going. If it weren’t for the people living here, those morons in Nigeria would have given it up a long time ago.
Yes, the Obamacare Versus ACA paradigm.
I never trust polls that do not volunteer their breakdown of respondents into Dem, Repub and Ind.
How do people approve of something they can not even find out what it is?
Wonder what the internals are.
vaudine
It’s non-functional, not credible, unconstitutional, un-American, unaffordable, unworkable, unsustainable, corrupt and it’s being forced down our throats. Other than that, everything sounds great.
Low information voters think they're two different things. "Affordable" makes it sound like something else, because obomacare isn't at all affordable.
There’s a certain segment of the population that feels sorry for the government administrators being so embarrassed and looking hopelessly inept. They will come to the defense of the poor beleagered bureaucrats and in sympathy, support their efforts just because they know they are people just like them. I kid you not - some people are like that.
I hope my re-education camp is named "The Fluffy Bunny and Puppy Place"...or maybe something with chocolate I could approve of anything with chocolate in the name.
Well, maybe .... and Bush #43 looked okay after Katrina passed over the city but before the city flooded.
This is Obama's Katrina, except it was his idea, and Obamacare affects about 300 times as many people.
I don’t know of anybody who has a limited income, who carefully decides what to make a $300-$700/month payment towards, who finds Obamacare even a tad bit more favorable for any citizen who is being effected by it.
Medical doctors hate it.
Patients hate it.
Hospitals hate it.
Labs and Pharmacies hate it.
Emergency Rooms Hate it.
Doctor groups hate it.
Even chiropractors hate it.
The only people who seem to like it are democrats inside the Beltway and cronies they promise to pay large contracts on the side.
I believe it. It’s not about Obamacare. It’s about Obama himself. If his fanatical loyalists gave any thought to his policies, they would hate them. Why, many of them are probably out of work because of them! But as soon as their icon gets tarnished, they rush to polish him up.
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