“This is a serious flaw, because other surveys, notably by the Kaiser Family Foundation, have shown repeatedly that voters strongly favor almost all of the actual features of Obamacare, including the end of insurance denials and jacked-up premiums for pre-existing medical conditions, lower drug prices for Medicare enrollees, the right to keep children on employer health plans to age 26, tax credits for small businesses to buy insurance, and the expansion of Medicaid.”
If, and only if, these benefits don’t cost them any money. If they do, then its a different matter entirely, isn’t it? The one thing the poll never asks his how much are you willing to pay for the feature.
I read that 82% of exchange enrolees are on subsidy.
Of course they’re happy for the taxpayer contribution.
Yup. People are NOT willing to pay more themselves for new benefits - or if they are, the cost has to be in proportion to the benefits provided.
If the costs are burdensome, people don’t see them as worth having. I’m surprised Michael Hitzik missed this and the greatest criticism of Obamacare is that it saddles people with expensive new costs and questionable health coverage.
That’s why its badly flawed. No one denies our health care system could work better but the Democrats’ approach was the wrong fix to its ills.