Posted on 11/03/2013 12:03:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In a new poll released Friday, the Kaiser Family Foundation found the one month after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges, more Americans want keep or expand the law as opposed to repeal or replace it, despite all of the problems with the HealthCare.gov web portal.
The poll asked people to answer what they would “like to see Congress do when it comes to the health care law.” As the figure below shows, 22% said “expand the law” and 25% said “keep the law as is” for a combined 47% of respondents. 13% wanted to see Congress “repeal the law and replace it with a Republican-sponsored alternative” and 24% said “repeal the law and not replace it” for a combined 37%.
As the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent points out, the poll was “taken October 17-23, more than two weeks after the problem-plagued rollout began (though in fairness, before the ‘you can keep your plan’ furor blew up).” It is significant that the big loser in the poll is the unspecified “Republican-sponsored alternative” given the fact that the GOP has not exactly been forthcoming about offering one up.
One other question from the poll concerned media coverage of the government shutdown/debt ceiling fight vs. the rocky Obamacare website rollout. Respondents were asked how closely they followed four stories that had been in the news last month: the government shutdown/debt ceiling fight, the Obamacare website problems, reports about the U.S. economy and the issues surrounding chemical weapons in Syria.
As the figure below demonstrates, Americans were far more likely to follow the shutdown/debt ceiling story very closely while the Obamacare website story received less overall public attention.
See the full poll results at KFF.org.
Those who want to keep and expand it are its navigators and administrators and those exempted from it — not those who are in it.
Yes and if you want to lump Medicare and Social Security in their, they follow no actuarial or investment rules. Their is no lock-box or assets, they have been spent and are full of IOU's. It is pay as you go self insurance backed only by the faith and credit bla bla bla.... So what if people loose faith and credit to pay...like Detroit? Where are we then?
LOL. Pure, unvarnished propaganda.
This is pure propaganda, for this one reason alone: Who the hell CAN have an opinion on Obamacare? YOU CANNOT GET ONTO THE WEBSITE!
LOL - there’s so much bias in that poll, I’m surprised the marxist group published the findings.
“Another form of generational theft and the inability to leave your descendents any sort of inheritance.”
“From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.” (Based on recent events that must be in the United States Constitution, although I haven’t found the exact passage yet.)
No, Americans did not want it, period. Neither did they want Obama. Unfortunately for them, they now comprise the minority of the population of the United States. Parasites, idiots, and traitors now outnumber them.
Keep or expand a program that can’t function on it’s own, sounds like a good idea! They lie once again is “most Americans”
Socialism works fine until you run out of other peoples money.
In the U.S. now more people are on welfare than work full time.
Democracies fail when people realize that they can vote themselves money.
Guess what? We’re done.
Tell the Kaiser’s that another poll says they are full of —it.
We have three years of polling that have never seen much support for this commiecare crap and then we have this piece of sh!t!
Yes, they have poured millions into promoting it and one world order.
Guess that poll only included odumbo’s administration since anyone in their right mind can see what a disaster odumbocare is.
Guess that poll only included odumbo’s administration since anyone in their right mind can see what a disaster odumbocare is.
Total push poll... 1513 adults which means any breather that answered the questions... if you read carefully you will see that this included anyone if there were no male or female adults present... you can bet that many a child was spoken with... 430 INTERNET VOTERS and Spanish speaking illegal alien families that want free stuff from the American worker... adults only... and then they run it through their special sauce machine to weight it just right and ala kazaaam... you have a turd.
http://kff.org/report-section/october-2013-tracking-poll-methodology/
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: October 2013
Nov 01, 2013
Findings
Methodology
This Kaiser Health Tracking Poll was designed and analyzed by public opinion researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) led by Mollyann Brodie, Ph.D., including Liz Hamel, Claudia Deane, and Sarah Cho. The survey was conducted October 17-23, 2013, among a nationally representative random digit dial telephone sample of 1,513 adults ages 18 and older, living in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii (note: persons without a telephone could not be included in the random selection process). Computer-assisted telephone interviews conducted by landline (755) and cell phone (758, including 430 who had no landline telephone) were carried out in English and Spanish by Princeton Data Source under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International (PSRAI). Both the random digit dial landline and cell phone samples were provided by Survey Sampling International, LLC. For the landline sample, respondents were selected by asking for the youngest adult male or female currently at home based on a random rotation. If no one of that gender was available, interviewers asked to speak with the youngest adult of the opposite gender. For the cell phone sample, interviews were conducted with the person who answered the phone. KFF paid for all costs associated with the survey.
The combined landline and cell phone sample was weighted to balance the sample demographics to match estimates for the national population using data from the Census Bureau’s 2011 American Community Survey (ACS) on sex, age, education, race, Hispanic origin, nativity (for Hispanics only), and region along with data from the 2010 Census on population density. The sample was also weighted to match current patterns of telephone use using data from the July-December 2012 National Health Interview Survey. The weight takes into account the fact that respondents with both a landline and cell phone have a higher probability of selection in the combined sample and also adjusts for the household size for the landline sample. All statistical tests of significance account for the effect of weighting.
The margin of sampling error including the design effect for the full sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points. Numbers of respondents and margin of sampling error for key subgroups are shown in the table below. For results based on other subgroups, the margin of sampling error may be higher. Sample sizes and margin of sampling errors for other subgroups are available by request. Note that sampling error is only one of many potential sources of error in this or any other public opinion poll.
Most of the time, polling companies oversample democrats. I learned that listening to Rush take apart poll after poll.
But let me suggest some different terminology.
We have a healthcare system and we have healthcare delivery system. You have to look at the good and the bad of these two separately but realize that each influences the other.
Medicare is a delivery system that is a single payer system with a lot of purchasing power that drives down the cost of the healthcare system, but it doesn't cover everything so you have to supplement it with private insurance. The medicare enrollee gets 80% of his health care at a low price and 20% at a higher price on an individual supplemental policy.
OTOH, VA is a healthcare system and healthcare delivery system that is owned and operated by the govt, similar to Britain.
An employer based delivery system will be cheaper for a company with 5000 employees than a company with 500 employees, than a company with 50 employees, than an individual buying an individual policy.
One of the major costs in our healthcare system is the hospital Chargemaster Price List. Tort law also contributes to the cost of the healthcare system.
Yep... Never mind Thursday’s NBC/WSJ poll that showed a majority of those surveyed want Obamacare overhauled or eliminated.
Democrats - the party of bigger and bigger federal government. Socialists.
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