Despite the Administration’s efforts to promote the goodies in the health care reform law, a new Rasmussen poll shows 63% of Americans favor repeal.
Given the benefits for many Americans, that seems a curious result. However, past studies have always shown the people with health insurance are generally happy with the coverage. Far more Americans have good coverage than do not and the status quo of that coverage may be perceived to be in jeopardy. In some cases, their will be required changes that are not positive. For example, changes affecting employer based coverage encourage employers to cut benefits or to drop coverage entirely.
In addition, coming at a time of economic stress, Americans may not be buying the “reduce the deficit” story associated with the political version of reform, but are concerned about the possibility of future costs associated with a massive new entitlement regardless of the perceived benefits for some Americans.
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I am always suspicious of an article which quotes only the Rasmussen, probably the most conservative poll out there. A multiplicity of polls gives a better result.
WSJ/NBC Poll “Fifty-five percent say we should give the bill a chance. Forty-two percent say we should start over.”
“The Quinnipiac polls, conducted in three states across the past month, all find likely voters to have complex and contradictory views on these repeal lawsuits as well as health care reform itself. By a slight majority, likely voters tend to oppose the health care reform law. But they also tend to oppose the repeal lawsuits as a “bad idea” that would, for a sizeable portion of voters, make them “less likely” to support a given candidate. In short, voters simultaneously don’t want to health care reform but don’t want to challenge it either”
Rasmussen tends to stoke the conservative fires and is decidedly slanted that way. Quinnipiac and WSJ/NBC tend to be more reliable.
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Not to worry either way, there is no chance of repeal.
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True. There is too much there that is good, and there is sufficient popularity. More to the point there is the man in the White House.
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