Democrats Are Abandoning Obamacare

Townhall.com ^ | July 26, 2013 | Michael F. Cannon

[Kaslin]

From The Washington Post’s The Fix:

Moderate Democrats are quitting on Obamacare

By Scott Clement, Published: July 23 at 9:00 am

The landmark health-reform law passed in 2010 has never been very popular and always highly partisan, but a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that a group of once loyal Democrats has been steadily turning against Obamacare: Democrats who are ideologically moderate  or conservative.

Just after the law was passed in 2010, fully 74 percent of moderate and conservative Democrats supported the federal law making changes to the health-care system. But just 46 percent express support in the new poll, down 11 points in the past year. Liberal Democrats, by contrast, have continued to support the law at very high levels – 78 percent in the latest survey. Among the public at large, 42 percent support and 49 percent oppose the law, retreating from an even split at 47 percent apiece last July.

The shift among the Democratic party’s large swath in the ideological middle– most Democrats in this poll, 57 percent, identify as moderate or conservative – is driving an overall drop in party support for the legislation: Just 58 percent of Democrats now support the law, down from 68 percent last year and the lowest since the law was enacted in 2010. This broader drop mirrors tracking surveys by the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation and Fox News polls, both of which found Democratic support falling earlier this year.

Read the whole thing.

This news comes on the heels of a significant fissure among House Democrats over Obamacare.

It also deflates an already weak talking point Obamacare supporters have used to pooh-pooh the law’s persistent unpopularity. As Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution once put it:

Of [the] 51 percent [who oppose the law], somewhere between a quarter and a third oppose the bill not because they are against it, but because they don’t think it went far enough.

They can’t use that excuse here. If Democratic support for Obamacare fell because more Democrats suddenly wish the law went farther, that drop would occur first and primarily among left-wing Democrats, not moderates and conservatives. It’s hard to come up with a story that explains why that dynamic would cause a drop in support only among moderates and conservatives.

[Jeff Winston]

Graphic looks like a rocket ship.

I imagine it with its nose now pointed toward the ground.

[MrEdd]

Correction.
ROMNEY’S creation.
I suspect they will try to give it back.
It’s a fair cop.

[Ezekiel]

I call headfake. They’re going to cram this thing down our throats through fines, seizure of property, prison time, while making private medical practice illegal, and any other means to extort the prize they’ve been drooling over for ninety years. Obamacare needs to die, and die hard. There is no other alternative.

Spot on. Obamacare is pharaohcare for Hebrew slaves. And it needs to die and be incinerated completely lest it morph into its [predesigned] resurrected state of single payer assisted suicide.

When I read the following article, I figured "mistake" was a code word for crime of opportunity. How much money will be conveniently saved because a Down Syndrome child was "mixed up" with a patient with a DNR order?

Down's syndrome boy, 6, died when doctor exhausted by 12-hour shift mistook him for child who had 'do not resuscitate' order

Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba. Now there's an Obamacare prototype in more ways than one.

[huckfillary]

The Democrats are giving up on it, but the GOP will do everything they can to salvage it. Every time the Democrats serve up a s**t sandwich, the Republicans bite.

[stevem]

Democrats Are Abandoning Obamacare

Yawn.

Fear not. The Republican hierarchy will rescue this catastrophe...even at the ruin of the United States.

[Kevmo]

Fear not. The Republican hierarchy will rescue this catastrophe...even at the ruin of the United States.
***Ouch. One reason to call them RUIN republicans. Because they’ll go along with anyone who puts an R in front of their name, regardless of what follows, even if it is RUIN.

[Kevmo]

ROMNEY’S creation.
***And yet, that didn’t stop the bulk of FR, including its founder, from endorsing Romney in the last election.

[AlanGreenSpam]

Kevmo, you sure view the world in simiplistic one-dimensional terms.

You had two choices to vote for.

Are you telling me you are glad “President Obeyme Narcissus” was elected rather than Romney??

Not voting is not an option.

Romney, with all his faults, would be a world different from this pathetic swine in the WH and you know it.

[Impy]

Too bad it’s meaningless how they feel now.

Maybe the Supreme Court can get a 2nd chance to not screw over America after a horror story lawsuit.

[eyedigress]

Never Happen.

The tentacles of govt are wrapped around every facet of your life. The United State of America has arrived and it is not approved.

[RipSawyer]

I’ve never driven a Subaru Outback but I suspect I could probably stand to do so. On the other hand I agree with the “Ultimate Jew” on Starbucks coffee.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Mjnzqi5gs

[RegulatorCountry]

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