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6 in 10 hold favorable view of Affordable Care Act in new polling
The Hill ^ | 02/21/2204 | MIRANDA NAZZARO

Posted on 02/21/2024 9:10:07 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

More than half of U.S. adults have a favorable view of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as the health care measure used by millions of Americans continues to gain popularity, according to a poll released Wednesday.

The survey, released by health policy research group KFF, found that 59 percent of U.S. adults had a favorable view of the ACA, though respondents differed along party lines on what they would like to see done with the law.

More than three-quarters of Democratic voters — 77 percent — want the next presidential administration and Congress to expand the law, while 39 percent of Republicans want it to be repealed and about 23 percent would like it to be scaled back, pollsters found.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affordable; care; favorable; view
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

You beat me to it. LOL. I just posted a response to that very point.


41 posted on 02/21/2024 10:08:39 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: brownsfan

How many more government fixes are needed???

Amazon now offers online medical care. For $30 you can get an email based visit or for $70 a skype visit. You can talk to someone within an hour. That didn’t happen because of a government program. The SOONEST I can see anyone who takes the crap obamacare we have in this county is JULY!!! Look how easy it is for someone to take their dog to a vet.

The whole problem IS the government sticking their grubby greedy fingers in the industry. Thomas Sowell said it best when asked about the republicans “repeal and replace.”

“When a doctor removes a cancer do you ask what he will replace it with?”


42 posted on 02/21/2024 10:09:22 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The survey, released by health policy research group KFF…

Well gosh, it doesn’t get more credible than that. 🙄

43 posted on 02/21/2024 10:10:35 AM PST by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated. )
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To: RightWingNutJob69
The biggest joke is the Obama administration arguing the individual mandate was not a tax, and then the supreme Court changed it to a tax.

That’s not how Supreme Court cases work.

A party in the case that hinges on (for example) five key points will submit briefs that argue both sides of each point … e.g., “If the court rules that the ACA is a tax, then it is legal because of X. If the court rules that it is not a tax, then it is legal because of Y.” Etc., etc.

44 posted on 02/21/2024 10:11:57 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Reno89519

IMHO. The government providing health insurance for a it’s citizens is a good public policy. We all need health care and not everyone can obtain employment that provides it. But the ACA and Medicare requires that the recipient of health INSURANCE has skin in the game, so they just don’t waste valuable resources. The ACA has a large deductible($6k to $12k) with co-pays and Medicare Insurance has a 20% copay.
I do favor charging anyone that gets ACA Insurance through Medicaid a flat 5% income tax to the State and Federal Government to help defray the costs.
I paid all my life into Medicare Insurance and now I reap the benefits of those payments in my old age.
I don’t want to see people dying outside of hospitals because the hospital says they don’t have insurance.
IMHO. YMMV.


45 posted on 02/21/2024 10:28:16 AM PST by Pol-92064
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To: Leaning Right; All

The ACA is a good example of how the Left plays the long game to win.

They took the short term political hit to build a permanent institution that would give them power in perpetuity.

Conservatives “won” office campaigning against the ACA.

“Conservatives” win meaningless elections while never changing the Institutions that determine the future of the country.


46 posted on 02/21/2024 10:32:37 AM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I liked my insurance. I wanted to keep my insurance. I wasn’t allowed to keep my insurance. None of my doctors or my local hospital will accept my Obamacare policy. So I got the cheapest Obamacare policy I could and pay cash whenever I see a doctor.


47 posted on 02/21/2024 10:41:25 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: stanne

If you love lying in a hospital and having no specialist show up, you probably love 0bamacare. Costs have gone up, quality of care has gone down.

Insurance is not healthcare. Healthcare is provided by doctors and nurses. Insurance is provided by bureaucrats. We need to return to free market medical care without the involvement of the government-insurance-big pharma bureaucracy.


48 posted on 02/21/2024 10:46:37 AM PST by con-surf-ative
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To: ChicagoConservative27
KFF - Kaiser Family Foundation.

No agenda there 😏

49 posted on 02/21/2024 10:53:57 AM PST by yelostar (Spook codes 33 and 13. See them often in headlines and news stories. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“You Lie!”


50 posted on 02/21/2024 10:56:22 AM PST by hsrazorback1 (At least I tried.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How about I tell you this.

Obamacare was, and is, an Health Insurance Company bailout. See, before 2010, Health Insurances were operating at a 5% or less profit margin. That’s ‘failure’ for a business, and they were likely going to go under. The bill managed to allow them to increase the ‘risk’ of the patients to levels so that they could charge everyone for that ‘risk’. That risk force an increase in ‘slush’ in case they got burned. Then, BOOM, Health Insurance profits went from less than 5% to greater than 40% and everybody who was working paid 2X what they were paying before!!

So: 1) It was a Giant TAX on business and workers placed squarely by the people who would not work, and waited until they had a medical problem (like having a car accident then purchasing insurance). 2) Increased government involvement in health care and forced private practice physicians to adopt costly EMR’s and IT while they got pennies on the tens of thousands they had to invest. 3) It increased the power of Government, Health Care insurance, and Hospital systems. 4) It LOWERED the overall care for the average patient, and especially the average working person and family. 5) Roberts was right, it was actually a giant tax increase on people of low middle class, and single working parents who got health care insurance via work.

As I write this, there are probably more people THAN EVER that don’t have health care insurance because they don’t purchase it until they have a problem. The premise of coverage because people couldn’t get coverage with pre-existing problems became ‘get coverage when you get sick’.

Just once more the Government took something, spent trillions, and made it much worse......


51 posted on 02/21/2024 11:14:04 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: con-surf-ative

“If you love lying in a hospital and having no specialist show up, you probably love 0bamacare. Costs have gone up, quality of care has gone down.

Insurance is not healthcare. Healthcare is provided by doctors and nurses. Insurance is provided by bureaucrats. We need to return to free market medical care without the involvement of the government-insurance-big pharma bureaucracy.”

Well…yeah, but then how are these people supposed to launder hundreds of billions?

The student loan deal went belly up. They’re scrambling on that. It’s headed south quick


52 posted on 02/21/2024 11:15:35 AM PST by stanne
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To: NautiNurse

It’s worse than that NN, the gummit crooks were taking money of my first paycheck in the 70’s and they still do it today whether you use Medikrap or not, plus you are forced on it if you decide to take SS. The crookedness goes on...

When the Kenyan Krap was passed I knew it was too late for the America that I knew way back and quickly came to hate the GOPe more that the rats and still do. The dems as you know are all socialists/communists and cannot be swayed - end of sentence, they are what the they are. OTOH the GOPe gives you a choice between soft socialism and commiedom, neither one is acceptable. They worked behind the scenes to pass that biggest piece of socialism in the history of the USA but exempted themselves - and the uniparty has won it all. Sad.


53 posted on 02/21/2024 11:47:17 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The survey was conducted from Jan. 30 to Feb. 7 online and by telephone among a nationally representative sample of 1,309 U.S. adults, including 1,055 registered voters. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

This one is a beaut.Poll details.19% not registered voters...illegals ?

https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/poll-finding/kff-health-tracking-poll-february-2024-voters-on-two-key-health-care-issues-affordability-and-aca/

From top line here - RATs oversampled by a little: https://files.kff.org/attachment/Topline-KFF-Health-Tracking-Poll-February-2024.pdf

It appears none of these are ACA participants - or at most 10%

COVTYPE. Which of the following is your main source of health insurance coverage?
Based on those who are insured 2/24
Plan through my or my spouse’s employer 43
Plan I purchased myself 10
Medicare, the government program for adults 65 and older, and some younger adults with long-term disabilities 21
Medicaid/[STATE-SPECIFIC MEDICAID NAME], the government program for certain low-income adults and children 19
Plan through my parents/mother/father 4
Somewhere else (specify) 2
No answer 1
Total 1,309
Total Registered Voters 1,055
Republican Registered Voters 343
Democratic Registered Voters 368
Independent Registered Voters 241

54 posted on 02/21/2024 11:54:59 AM PST by stylin19a (a man at my door asked for a small donation for the local swimming pool. I gave him a glass of water)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“6 in 10 hold favorable view of Affordable Care Act in new polling”

How about the 4 in 10 that actually have PAY for their insurance, rather than having the government pay for it?


55 posted on 02/21/2024 6:28:09 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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