Americans are Clear: Obamacare Just Isn't Liberal Enough

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Americans are Clear: Obamacare Just Isn't Liberal Enough


By Jamelle Bouie December 23rd 2013

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"...for 15 percent of Americans, is that they oppose the Affordable Care Act because it’s not liberal enough in its approach toward health care reform. Indeed, when you look at the full results, you see an electorate that either supports Obamacare or wants a more liberal alternative. There’s still an open question as to what those 15 percent want, but—if they support more liberal policies—then it’s fair to say they don’t want to dismantle the law. What Republicans want—a majority that opposes Obamacare and wants its repeal—just doesn’t exist."

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[Mojo2]

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Americans are Clear: Obamacare Just Isn't Liberal Enough


By Jamelle Bouie December 23rd 2013

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"...for 15 percent of Americans, is that they oppose the Affordable Care Act because it’s not liberal enough in its approach toward health care reform. Indeed, when you look at the full results, you see an electorate that either supports Obamacare or wants a more liberal alternative. There’s still an open question as to what those 15 percent want, but—if they support more liberal policies—then it’s fair to say they don’t want to dismantle the law. What Republicans want—a majority that opposes Obamacare and wants its repeal—just doesn’t exist."

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The Affordable Care Act consists primarily of taking away many of our liberties by advocating health care for the less fortunate.

The government does not possess the authority to require an individual to purchase health insurance, so why try trick the uniformed into thinking the government knows what is best for them?

The Affordable Care Act is about government control over a large market and the welfare of those people.

As more companies drop their health insurance plans, those individuals will be required to join a government-controlled health plan and be subservient to that ideology.


This is just what the socialistic president wants — more people dependent on government and therefore more control over those individual lives. Again, just smoke and mirrors.

Watch this hand while I steal your liberties.

— Jack Jaros, Whiting

Affordable Care Act is about government control

 

[S.J.]

This is a joke, right?

 

[The Rabbi]

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Americans are Clear: Obamacare Just Isn't Liberal Enough


By Jamelle Bouie December 23rd 2013

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"...for 15 percent of Americans, is that they oppose the Affordable Care Act because it’s not liberal enough in its approach toward health care reform. Indeed, when you look at the full results, you see an electorate that either supports Obamacare or wants a more liberal alternative. There’s still an open question as to what those 15 percent want, but—if they support more liberal policies—then it’s fair to say they don’t want to dismantle the law. What Republicans want—a majority that opposes Obamacare and wants its repeal—just doesn’t exist."

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OK. The other 45% oppose it because it is oppressive and results in worse products at higher prices.

 

[Star]

This is a joke, right?

If it is, the jokes on you.
The polls have been pretty consistent - check out the results of a poll written about by PolitiFact on February 6, 2011.
Stur-range how the headline writers consistently write something like "The majority of people in polls do not support Obamacare." but fail to point out in their headlines that about &#8537; - &#8533; of the non-supporters don't support Obamacare because it isn't liberal enough, hmmm!... where is that lefty media when you need it?


The majority of people in polls do "not support Obamacare" | PolitiFact

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When you average polls over the past few months, the result is that the public is evenly split on the health care bill, said Dr. Robert Blendon, a professor at Harvard who was one of the poll's designers. Opinions on it also tend to break down along partisan lines.

"Republicans continue to overwhelmingly dislike this bill, and Democrats favor it and would like to see it expanded in one way or another. Independents are split and tend to move one way or another," Blendon said.

Things get even trickier when you ask people about repealing the law, because a significant portion of those who say they view the law unfavorably also say they they are opposed to a complete repeal. The most recent Kaiser poll showed that 19 percent said keep the law as it is; 28 percent said expand the law; 23 percent said repeal the law and replace it with a Republican alternative; 20 percent said repeal it and don't replace it. That means 47 percent want the law kept or expanded, and 43 percent want it replaced with a Republican alternative or simply repealed.

Some polls have also found that at least a portion of people who dislike the health care bill dislike it because they wanted to see more dramatic changes to the health care system. A CNN poll in December found that 13 percent of those who opposed the law did so because it wasn't liberal enough. Another 43 percent favored the bill and 37 percent said it was too liberal.

There's also some evidence of small shifts in opinion depending on how the question is asked. When the polls are as close as they are on health care, that can make a difference in which side prevails.

Finally, individual components of health care tend to poll very well, such as tax credits to help low- and moderate-income people buy insurance (79 percent favorable) and expanding Medicaid, the government-run health care program for the poor (67 percent favorable). The least popular part of the law is the individual mandate requiring people to buy insurance (23 percent favorable).


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Obamacare Derangement Syndrome? - you betcha!
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[The Rabbi]

People like to be generous with other people's money. Wow, what an insight.
Yeah, maybe 15% of people think there should have been single payer. The otehr 85% recognize that socialized medicine would be even worse than this dog shit of a program we have now.