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 Acts 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 Posts 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.
And, the Jews loved Dachau, right?
Yes. So, this IS a joke.
Obama care and it’s creators must be destroyed.
If either persists there will be unending disaster
BS propaganda alert, the Washington Compost is nothing but a communist left-wing propaganda birdcage liner.
They threw the word “Republican” into the repeal and replace option to bias people against it. It’s amazing the number of low information voters who have mostly conservative, common sense beliefs but who have been conditioned to believe that Republicans are evil. We live in a nation of bloody morons.
Please. Spare me. The Kaiser Family Foundation, and its Kaiser Health News, has been advocating socialized medicine for years. They have been huge cheerleaders for Obamacare, and think it doesn’t go far enough. This is not an unbiased organization and its polls are always skewed. I would not believe a word of this.
Polls can be made to say anything—the right questions and people would approve of Hitler’s tactics. Like: “For the good of the Nation should Radical Tea Party extremists be placed in camps and investigated for foreign ties?” or “Should Radial racist Tea Party people be placed in re-education camps to show them the error of their bigoted thinking—” How many would agree with these statements today? Everyone on MSNB I would think-—Next “Do you believe Tea Party people need to have their children taken from them before they can twist their minds?” or “For the good of the nation should radial Tea Party People be exicuted in mass gas chambers?”
I heard that is only if you accept Medicaid between ages 55 and 65.
And I'm not opposed to it. I believe anyone who accepts means-tested entitlements (Mediaid, food stamps, etc., the ones that aren't earned like Medicaid, Social Security or veterans benefits) should have to pay back the value of whatever they take when and if they can. As long as they're told upfront what they're getting into and sign onto it, which I believe they are in the case of Medicaid.
Problem is Rush admitted he was wrong about the polls after the 2012 election. I never had any confidence in the debunking of the polls from our side because I heard the same thing in 2008 and it didn’t come true then either.
Who did they ask? The winos in the homeless shelters?
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