Posted on 04/23/2015 1:03:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Good news for Obamacare supporters: It's quite a bit less unpopular than it was a few months ago. The uptick leads to the question: Will the Affordable Care Act ever actually be popular? Looking at the long run, Republicans may have done the law a favor by naming it Obamacare.
Former presidents usually bask in a nostalgic glow after they leave office. While events could still make a difference, Obama is well-positioned to take advantage of that effect: To date, at least, he has no major wars to regret, and the nation hasn't plunged into a new recession.
If long-term public opinion on Obamacare is tied to long- term public opinion of Obama, it may wind up polling a lot better in 2020 than it does in 2015.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
By that point, people will have no clue that health-care could be provided any differently or better.
And that’s assuming the Fed is still able to print US Dollars and manipulate interest rates to zero to buy Government debt to support it all.
Welfare was popular in the 70’s.... even though it was disasterous.
In 2025, fallout shelters will become popular again.
Well if Cruz does not win in 2016, like it or not by 2020 you will be stuck with obamacare, and you will also most likely be mandated to direct your prayers towards obama five times a day.
You're joking, right? I happen to believe there should be national healthcare for all from womb to tomb but spare me from the mess of Obama-care.
The kneepads is strong with this one!
Has there ever been a nostalgic glow around Jimmy Carter’s presidency?
No, I believe this.
It is simply a matter of brainwashing the LIVs
Given the success in bamboozling the American public into granting “marriage” to sexual deviants — I’s say the LIVs can be convinced of anything now.
Unless liberals are stopped in their tracks in 2016 and the remains of the Obama criminal years are rolled back there won’t be an America by 2020.
There will be a piece of land that is labeled America on the maps.
The heart and dream of “America, The Land Of The Free” will be gone. What remains will be a broken down third-world level country infested by the debris from around the world.
Liberals in 2020 will be looking around them wondering what happened to the goose that was laying the golden eggs that financed their socialist / one-world agenda.
re: “To date, at least, he has no major wars to regret, and the nation hasn’t plunged into a new recession.”
Projectile barf just from the above statement alone. “No major wars to regret”??? How about losing two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus the entire Middle East turned upside down.
Recession?? Have we ever really left the last one yet? I don’t think so.
And we'll all have flying cars too!
Plus, America's rogue terrorist nation enemy Iran to acquire nuclear weapons?
Why would it be unpopular with those that either don’t pay for it or are subsidized to have it.
Meanwhile people in the shrinking middle class like me pay 5k a year for bad insurance with a $6500 deductible and high office payments.
The not paying vs those in the minority paying through their @ss. The majority of the voters with the hand outs get the health care for or near free, so they out vote the taxpayer.
Again those that work lose.
LOL
What is this guy smoking?
“Chicago Tribune”, is whistling in the dark, again.
The Trib always does Obama's dirty work.
And that's because Lenin said that medicine is capstone in the arch of socialism. You have a right to purchase healthcare, but you do not have the right to force me to pay for it. Single payer healthcare has nothing to do with healthcare and everything to do with control.
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