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And dropping.
Poll: Americans' approval of Obamacare drops
Posted: Nov 14, 2013 7:20 AM HST
Updated: Nov 14, 2013 7:51 AM HST
Poll: Americans' approval of health care law drops. (Source: CNN)
(CNN) - Public opinion of the federal health care law is growing more negative.
A new poll indicates the gap between those who favor and don't favor Obamacare has become the widest it's been in the last year.
According to the Gallup poll released Thursday 40 percent of Americans approve of the affordable care act, while 55 percent disapprove.
Americans have long been divided over the law, but the new numbers represent a significant shift.
In December 2012, for example, 48 percent of Americans approved of Obamacare while 45 percent disapproved.
The change in opinion comes as the Obama administration plays defense over the botched HealthCare.gov rollout.
It's also playing defense on questions over people losing their current health insurance plans, despite being assured they wouldn't.
http://www.kplctv.com/story/23970023/poll-americans-approval-of-obamacare-drops
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Dont let strawman see this, he's been desperately spouting the opposite lately. Its all he has to hold on to ;D
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This nation is fickle.
That number might change soon. Most people in this nation no longer has any respect for the constitution, the rule of law and work ethic.
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WaPost Poll: Opposition to Obamacare Rises to Record High 57 Percent
Tuesday, 19 Nov 2013
By Newsmax Wires
The botched rollout of Obamacare has done huge damage to the presidency of President Barack Obama, according to a new poll released Tuesday. Disapproval of his job performance has hit a career high and opposition to the new healthcare law has climbed sharply.
In nearly every category, from his support among independents to the young, Obama's support has plunged, according to the poll. Moreover, the poll shows evidence of a huge fallout for Democrats in the midterm elections a year off. Support the law in critical "blue states" has also fallen greatly.
Obama's overall approval rating stands at 42 percent, dropping six points in a month in the Washington Post-ABC News poll, his lowest rating yet.
Opposition to the new health care law also reached a record high: 57 percent said they are now against what is supposed to be Obama's biggest domestic policy achievement.
And 46 percent say they are strongly against it, whereas a month ago, as the enrollment period began Americans were about evenly divided over the law.
Obama's handling of Obamacare's rollout has a disapproval rating of 63 percent. Last month, 53 percent disapproved.
Overall, Obama is also at career lows for being a strong leader, understanding the problems of average Americans and being honest and trustworthy.
The last two categories are new lows for the Obama presidency, the pollsters wrote at ABC News. Overall, his "rating for strong leadership is down by 15 points this year and a vast 31 points below its peak shortly after he took office. In a new gauge, just 41 percent rate him as a good manager; 56 percent think not."
These are the first polling numbers since Obama apologized last week and acknowledged errors in how the Affordable Care Act was implemented.
Due to nagging problems with the federal website designed to allow people to sign up for insurance, seven in 10 Americans say the administration should delay what is known as the individual mandate.
This is a clause in the law that obliges all individuals to get health insurance or pay a fine.
The good news -- if there is any -- is that anger over the Affordable Care Act looks to be the "driving force" in Obama’s troubles. By nearly 2-1, or 63-33 percent, Americans strongly disapprove of his handling of implementation of the new health care law.
Overall, the public by 57-40 percent now opposes the law overall, its most negative rating to date, with opposition up by 8 points in the past month alone. In categories not involving the law, the public still views Obama relatively favorably.
That, of course, is of little comfort in a news landscape dominated by stories of the debacle.
"At 46 percent, “strong” opposition to the ACA – a new high – outpaces strong support by a record 19 points," according to ABC. "In terms of Obama’s job performance overall, strong critics outnumber strong approvers by 2-1, 44-22 percent, with strong disapproval at another career high. He’d run evenly on strong sentiment as recently as last May."
Other dismal findings for Obama:
Just 33 percent of political independents now approve of Obama’s work in office, while 63 percent disapprove. It's a career low for Obama among independents, down 21 points since January and 10 points in just the past month.
Obama is also hurting among moderates. He dropped by 17 points in approval among this group since January, to 46 percent.
Perhaps worst of all, Obama has lost his standing among the young. His overall approval rating among adults age 18 to 29 has plunged 23 points since January, his steepest loss in any group. Their view that the country’s headed in the wrong direction has gained 20 points since May. In the past month alone opposition to the Obamacare has jumped by 16 points among under-30s, with strong opposition up by 21 points.
If the election were held today, Mitt Romney likely would have won, according to The Washington Post. Forty-five percent of Americans call Obama “too liberal,” matching the high, and 46 percent say the same about the Democratic Party. "Registered voters divide numerically in Mitt Romney’s favor, 49-45 percent, if they had a mulligan for the 2012 presidential election. While the difference between the two is within the poll’s error margin, Obama’s support is 6 points below his actual showing a year ago."
The findings are particularly good news for Republicans looking to 2014 and beyond. In the states that backed Mitt Romney in 2012, Americans by 3 to 1, or 46-15 percent, say they’re "more inclined to oppose than to support a candidate who favors the law. And the law is no help even in the blue states that backed Obama. Thirty-one percent there say they are inclined to oppose an ACA-linked candidate, compared to 25 percent who’d be more apt to support one.
The poll was carried out November 14-17 among a random national sample of 1,006 adults. The margin of error was 3.5 percentage points.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/post-poll-obamacare-record/2013/11/19/id/537370#ixzz2l74jwcmc
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Strawman??? :D
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ABC NEWS POLL: YOUTH ABANDON OBAMA AND OBAMACARE
by JOHN NOLTE
19 Nov 2013
A poll released by ABC News Tuesday shows that President Obama's approval rating has hit an all-time low in this particular poll. But the biggest fallout has come from 18 to 29-year-olds, a demographic widely considered to be Obama's base. Since January, the president's approval rating with this group has dropped a stunning 23 points. Support for ObamaCare has lost 16 points with this same group in just one month.
The president's approval rating with this group has been on the slide since the NSA scandal broke. But the 16 point drop in ObamaCare approval points points to the fact that the president's problems with an important part of his base goes beyond issues concerning privacy.
One explanation for the 16 point drop could be that many of those in this age group were caught off guard by the truth about ObamaCare, namely the fact that their government-mandated health insurance premiums would explode as a way to pay for the sick and elderly.
This was something the media covered up until after the 2012 election.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/19/poll-youth-abandon-obama-and-obamacare
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The idiots who elected this idiot are reaping the results of his idiotic healthcare "plan."
Hopefully, enough idiots will have learned a lesson when this idiocy is done and won't elect another idiot Democrat with idiotic plans to take care of all the idiots from cradle to grave.
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Instead of posting about Obama...I'm just gonna attach the below poster until u libs loose ur minds.
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Instead of posting about Obama...I'm just gonna attach the below poster until u libs loose ur minds.
Qft
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/us/politics/for-lawmakers-a-gold-plated-insurance-exchange.html?_r=0#commentsContainer
Just wow.
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And dropping.
Poll: Americans' approval of Obamacare drops
Posted: Nov 14, 2013 7:20 AM HST
Updated: Nov 14, 2013 7:51 AM HST
Poll: Americans' approval of health care law drops. (Source: CNN)
(CNN) - Public opinion of the federal health care law is growing more negative.
A new poll indicates the gap between those who favor and don't favor Obamacare has become the widest it's been in the last year.
According to the Gallup poll released Thursday 40 percent of Americans approve of the affordable care act, while 55 percent disapprove.
Americans have long been divided over the law, but the new numbers represent a significant shift.
In December 2012, for example, 48 percent of Americans approved of Obamacare while 45 percent disapproved.
The change in opinion comes as the Obama administration plays defense over the botched HealthCare.gov rollout.
It's also playing defense on questions over people losing their current health insurance plans, despite being assured they wouldn't.
http://www.kplctv.com/story/23970023/poll-americans-approval-of-obamacare-drops
How the hell could 40% support something like this at any point? sick
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How the hell could 40% support something like this at any point? sick
Welfare mobs, racist minorities, blaks, commies, dopers, govt union workers, radical lezbos, etc.
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The idiots who elected this idiot are reaping the results of his idiotic healthcare "plan."
Hopefully, enough idiots will have learned a lesson when this idiocy is done and won't elect another idiot Democrat with idiotic plans to take care of all the idiots from cradle to grave.
excellent post
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Welfare mobs, racist minorities, blaks, commies, dopers, govt union workers, radical lezbos, etc.
You're my favorite political board poster!
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This nation is fickle.
That number might change soon. Most people in this nation no longer has any respect for the constitution, the rule of law and work ethic.
Not to mention subject/verb agreement. What IS this country coming to? ;D
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How low can it go?
President and Obamacare sink to new polling lows
Posted by
CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser
Washington (CNN) – It's becoming a daily story: another national poll, another all-time low for President Barack Obama when it comes to his approval rating.
Wednesday morning it's CBS News. The President's approval rating stands at 37% in their new survey, plunging nine percentage points since last month–a new low for Obama in CBS News polling. The President's disapproval rating shot up from 49% in October to 57% now, a new high.
The President's approval rating has now reached new lows or tied his all-time lows in polls released over the past three weeks from CBS News, ABC News/Washington Post, Quinnipiac University, National Journal Heartland Monitor, and NBC News/Wall Street Journal.
A CNN Poll of Polls, compiled and released Wednesday morning, which averages the three latest non-partisan, live operator national surveys of the President's approval rating (CBS News, Gallup Daily Tracking, and ABC News/Washington Post), puts Obama's approval at 40% and his disapproval at 55%.
Support for health care law sinks
Just 31% of those questioned in the CBS News poll say they approve of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, a drop of 12 points since last month, and the lowest level of support for the measure in CBS surveys. That overall drop was fueled by a 16 point plunge in support by Democrats, to 58% and an 11 point drop among independents, to 27%.
Sixty-four percent say they're not confident that HealthCare.gov will be fixed by Dec. 1. Forty-eight percent say the health care law needs some changes, 43% want the measure repealed, with just seven percent saying it's working well.
Only 21% give the GOP in Congress a thumbs-up, with 26% feeling the same way about congressional Democrats.
Approaching Bush's numbers
Obama's approval ratings are far lower than where Ronald Reagan (low to mid 60's) and Bill Clinton (upper 50's) stood at this time in the second terms, and he's nearing where his immediate predecessor, George W. Bush stood.
"Approval ratings for Obama and George W. Bush have followed the same pattern in their second terms for completely different reasons. For Bush, a natural disaster and an unpopular war were the primary reasons why his approval rating dropped to 41% in October 2005 and to 37% in November of that year," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/20/president-and-obamacare-sink-to-new-polling-lows/
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Dang. :-\
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"Some 57 percent of respondents in the Harvard poll said they disapprove of Obamacare, with 40 percent expecting the quality of health care to worsen and about half expecting health care costs to rise."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/harvard-poll-youth-unhappy/2013/12/04/id/539941#ixzz2mWfUKASt
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"we need to pass this so we can see what's in it..."
even i knew right then it SUCKED.
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December 6, 2013
Majority of Americans Want Major Changes to Health Law
Fifty-two percent want Congress to repeal or scale back the law
by Art Swift
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After two months of glitches with the new federal healthcare website and attempts to fix it, the percentage of Americans who prefer that Congress scale back or entirely repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or "Obamacare," has changed little. Fifty-two percent favor scaling back (20%) or repealing (32%) the law, similar to the 50% from mid-October.
Trend: Attitudes Toward the Affordable Care Act
At least half of Americans have said they would repeal or scale back the law each time Gallup has asked this question since January 2011.
The latest results are from a Gallup poll conducted Dec. 3-4, after a tumultuous two months for the Obama administration's healthcare website. Technical issues hamstrung potential buyers from purchasing health insurance through the website.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Dec. 1 that the federal health exchange website now works for the "vast majority" of users, though it is too early to determine whether this announcement has affected public opinion of the law.
Americans are about as likely to say they would like Congress to "expand" the healthcare law or "keep it as it is" as they were in October, although a minority hold these views. Twenty percent want Congress to expand the law, up from 14% in October, while 17% want the law to be kept as is, down from 24%.
Overall, 37% of Americans want the law expanded or kept as is, while 52% want the law repealed or scaled back, roughly similar to the 40% who approve and 54% who disapprove in the latest update on overall attitudes toward the ACA. The fact that 32% want an outright repeal, compared with 54% who disapprove of the law, suggests that some of those who disapprove still do not want to do away with the law altogether.
Republicans Increasingly Want Repeal, Democrats Increasingly Want Expansion
Nearly four years after "Obamacare" was passed, Republicans and Democrats are still deeply divided about whether Congress should modify it. Republicans are more likely to say they want to repeal the healthcare law today (68%) than they were in October (57%). In contrast, Democrats are more likely to want Congress to expand the law (34%) than they were in October (22%).
While 90% of Republicans want Congress to repeal or scale back the law, 65% of Democrats would like to expand the law or keep it as is. Independents almost exactly mirror the national averages, with 50% in favor of repealing or scaling the law back, and 37% saying they would like to expand it or keep it as is.
Trend: Attitudes Toward the Affordable Care Act, by Party Identification
Bottom Line
The time since the federal health exchange website officially launched on Oct. 1 has been a period of turmoil for the ACA, with reports of many Americans struggling to successfully sign up for insurance. Despite HHS's announcement on Dec. 1 that the technical issues have been mostly fixed and reports of 29,000 new enrollees in the days thereafter, Americans so far are no less likely to say Congress should repeal the law or scale it back.
As the Obama administration continues to make fixes to the site and the Dec. 23 deadline approaches to enroll for coverage that starts on Jan. 1, Americans' views about congressional action on the healthcare law have remained steady, and it is unclear whether they will budge in the months to come.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/166145/majority-americans-major-changes-health-law.aspx
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NBC/WSJ poll: Obama ends year on low note
By Mark Murray, Senior Political Editor, NBC News
A year that began with President Barack Obama riding high after his re-election victory is ending with him in the biggest hole of his presidency.
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that more Americans disapprove of the president's job performance than ever before; half say they’re either disappointed or dissatisfied with his presidency and 54 percent believe he’s facing a long-term setback.
Perhaps more significantly, Obama has seen a drop in key presidential attributes.
Just 28 percent give the president high grades for being able to achieve his goals (down 16 points from January); only 37 percent give him high marks for being honest and straightforward (down 5 points from June); and 44 percent give him high marks for being able to handle a crisis (down another 5 points since June).
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Read the full poll here (.pdf)
“These are tough and sobering numbers for the president and his administration,” said Democratic pollster Fred Yang, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff.
While the past year has presented Obama with several different challenges – the political targeting scandal inside the Internal Revenue Service, the leaking of National Security Agency information, the government shutdown in October – the main culprit for his current woes has been the troubled launch of his signature health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act.
Indeed, for the first time in the poll, a majority now views the health law as a bad idea instead of a good one.“Make no mistake, the president has been weighed down by one issue: his health care law,” Yang adds.
But 2013 hasn’t been a kind year to Congress, either, as a majority of respondents call it “one of the worst” in history — the highest percentage ever to express this view.
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http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/10/21852127-nbcwsj-poll-obama-ends-year-on-low-note?lite
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AP Poll: Nearly 4 in 5 Say Obamacare Will Worsen Insurance Coverage
Sunday, 15 Dec 2013
Americans who already have health insurance are blaming President Barack Obama's health care overhaul for their rising premiums and deductibles, and overall 3 in 4 say the rollout of coverage for the uninsured has gone poorly.
An Associated Press-GfK poll finds that health care remains politically charged going into next year's congressional elections. Keeping the refurbished HealthCare.gov website running smoothly is just one of Obama's challenges, maybe not the biggest.
The poll found a striking level of unease about the law among people who have health insurance and aren't looking for government help.
Those are the 85 percent of Americans who the White House says don't have to be worried about the president's historic push to expand coverage for the uninsured.
In the survey, nearly half of those with job-based or other private coverage say their policies will be changing next year — mostly for the worse. Nearly 4 in 5 (77 percent) blame the changes on the Affordable Care Act, even though the trend toward leaner coverage predates the law's passage.
Sixty-nine percent say their premiums will be going up, while 59 percent say annual deductibles or copayments are increasing.
Only 21 percent of those with private coverage said their plan is expanding to cover more types of medical care, though coverage of preventive care at no charge to the patient has been required by the law for the past couple of years.
Fourteen percent said coverage for spouses is being restricted or eliminated, and 11 percent said their plan is being discontinued.
"Rightly or wrongly, people with private insurance looking at next year are really worried about what is going to happen," said Robert Blendon, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, who tracks public opinion on health care issues. "The website is not the whole story."
Employers trying to control their health insurance bills have been shifting costs to workers for years, but now those changes are blamed increasingly on "Obamacare" instead of the economy or insurance companies.
Political leanings seemed to affect perceptions of eroding coverage, with larger majorities of Republicans and independents saying their coverage will be affected.
The White House had hoped that the Oct. 1 launch of open enrollment season for the uninsured would become a teaching moment, a showcase of the president's philosophy that government can help smooth out the rough edges of life in the modern economy for working people.
Instead the dysfunctional website became a parable for Republicans and others skeptical of government.
At the same time, a cresting wave of cancellation notices hit millions who buy their policy directly from an insurer. That undercut one of Obama's central promises — that you can keep the coverage you have if you like it. The White House never clearly communicated the many caveats to that promise.
Disapproval of Obama's handling of health care topped 60 percent in the poll.
With the website working better and enrollments picking up, Democrats are hoping negative impressions will quickly fade in the rearview mirror. The poll found that Democrats still have an edge over Republicans, by 32 percent to 22 percent, when it comes to whom the public trusts to handle health care.
But other potential bumps are just ahead for Obama's law.
It's unclear whether everyone who wants and needs coverage by Jan. 1 will be able to get it through the new online insurance markets. Some people who have to switch plans because their policies were cancelled may find that their new insurance covers different drugs, or that they have to look for other doctors.
In the poll, taken just after the revamped federal website was unveiled, 11 percent of Americans said they or someone in their household had tried to sign up for health insurance in the new marketplaces.
Sixty-two percent of those said they or the person in their household ran into problems. About one-fourth of all who tried managed to enroll. Half said they were not able to buy insurance, and the remaining quarter said they weren't sure.
Phyllis Dessel, 63, of Reading, Pa., believes she is finally enrolled after 50 attempts online. The retired social worker, a political independent, currently has her own private insurance.
When Dessel described her experience, she jokingly asked, "Do you mind if I cry?"
Thanks to tax credits available under the law, she was able to save about $100 a month on her coverage. But she had to switch carriers because a plan with her current insurer cost more than she was willing to pay. She hasn't gotten an invoice yet from her new insurance company.
The premiums were "not at all" what she expected, said Dessel. "They were much, much higher."
A supporter of Obama's overhaul, she believes changes are needed to make the coverage more affordable.
"I think with a lot of amendments or updates, it could be very, very helpful and beneficial," said Dessel. "I know a lot of people who don't have insurance. My hairdresser, my plumber don't have insurance and they're not going to get it if it's not affordable."
The AP-GfK Poll was conducted Dec. 5-9 and involved online interviews with 1,367 adults. The survey has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for all respondents.
The survey was conducted using KnowledgePanel, a probability-based Internet panel designed to be representative of the U.S. population. Respondents to the survey were first selected randomly using phone or mail survey methods, and were later interviewed online. People selected for KnowledgePanel who didn't otherwise have access to the Internet were provided with the ability to access the Internet at no cost to them.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obamacare-worsens-coverage-ap/2013/12/15/id/541905#ixzz2nesb9C9E
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Fox News Poll: 67 percent say delay Obamacare, 53 percent would vote to repeal it
By Dana Blanton
Published December 18, 2013
FoxNews.com
Americans remain unhappy with the health care law: Majorities say they wish it had never passed, would vote to repeal it if they could, and think implementation should be delayed until the kinks are worked out. At the same time, a shrinking majority believes the law will survive.
That’s according to a year-end Fox News poll released Wednesday.
Click here for the poll results.
The number of voters who want implementation of the law delayed continues to grow. The new poll shows 67 percent think it should be postponed a year “until more details are ironed out.” That’s up four percentage points since last month -- and up 10 points since October.
Those favoring a delay also now include a majority of Democrats: 54 percent support delaying implementation. That’s up 10 points from 44 percent last month.
Overall, by a 54-38 percent margin, people wish the health care law had never passed and the 2009 system were still in place.
Similarly, 53 percent would vote to repeal the law if given the chance, while 41 percent would keep it.
Republicans (86 percent repeal) are 14 points more likely to want the health care law repealed than Democrats are to want to keep it (72 percent keep).
About one Democrat in five would vote to repeal the law (22 percent).
Sixty-one percent of voters believe the Obama administration knew ahead of time that not everyone would be able to keep their doctor. What’s more, almost everyone says it’s important to them to be able to choose their doctor (82 percent “very” and 13 percent “somewhat” important).
Most voters are troubled that a couple of the basic guarantees Americans were given before the health care law passed -- are now broken promises: 32 percent find it more troubling that people were told they could keep their health plan, while 15 percent think it was worse that the administration told people they could keep their doctor. Another 25 percent of voters say those are equally troubling. Just 27 percent finds neither of these is troubling.
President Obama’s job rating on health care remains extremely negative. By a wide 22-point margin voters are more likely to disapprove (59 percent) than approve (37 percent) of the job he’s doing. His current approval rating on health care is just one point above his record-low 36 percent approval in November.
Will Obamacare succeed? Voters aren’t convinced it will: 38 percent feel confident that enough people will sign up to make it successful, yet many more -- 60 percent -- don’t think that will happen.
The number thinking Obamacare will eventually be repealed or defunded is up: 40 percent feel that way, an increase of 13 points since October. On the other side, 54 percent believe it will remain the law of the land, down from 64 percent two months ago.
The Fox News poll is based on landline and cell phone interviews with 1,027 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from December 14-16, 2013. The full poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/18/fox-news-poll-67-percent-say-delay-obamacare-53-would-vote-to-repeal-it/
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When you consistently lie about a product (fraud) it will disappoint those who buy it ... in this case forced to buy it. Almost everything Obama used to sell and promote this bill was bullshit. He is no better than the Sham wow sales person.
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And dropping.
Poll: Americans' approval of Obamacare drops
Posted: Nov 14, 2013 7:20 AM HST
Updated: Nov 14, 2013 7:51 AM HST
Poll: Americans' approval of health care law drops. (Source: CNN)
(CNN) - Public opinion of the federal health care law is growing more negative.
A new poll indicates the gap between those who favor and don't favor Obamacare has become the widest it's been in the last year.
According to the Gallup poll released Thursday 40 percent of Americans approve of the affordable care act, while 55 percent disapprove.
Americans have long been divided over the law, but the new numbers represent a significant shift.
In December 2012, for example, 48 percent of Americans approved of Obamacare while 45 percent disapproved.
The change in opinion comes as the Obama administration plays defense over the botched HealthCare.gov rollout.
It's also playing defense on questions over people losing their current health insurance plans, despite being assured they wouldn't.
http://www.kplctv.com/story/23970023/poll-americans-approval-of-obamacare-drops
Hope repubs repeal this soon.
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This pos bill is not reversed - this nation is DONE!!!!
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This pos bill is not reversed - this nation is DONE!!!!
most doctors agree that obamacare will increase the care to side effect/iatrogenic etiologies and create openings to truly utilize teh pathogenesis via spurious epidemiological evidence with stringent alpha levels and regressive linear ancova's thus improving health care for the "most".
And you disagree with this?
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December 23, 2013, 09:18 am
ObamaCare approval drops to record low
By Peter Sullivan
Support for the Affordable Care Act has dropped five percentage points in a month to a record low, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Monday.
The poll finds that just 35 percent of the public supports the law, compared to 40 percent in late November.
The drop in support indicated in the poll could be particularly troubling to the Obama administration because almost all of it came from women, whose opposition rose from 54 percent to 60 percent in a month. The administration has tried to highlight advantages for women, such as free preventative care that covers mammograms.
Some of those who oppose the law, 15 percent of all respondents, continue to do so because they think it is not liberal enough. That means half of the public either supports the law or thinks it is not liberal enough.
Just 16 percent said they think their family will be better off when most of the law takes effect next year, a number essentially unchanged from earlier in the year.
Some Republicans have targeted the pledge to be able to keep one's doctor as the next assurance to be proven wrong. Still, 61 percent said they believed they could keep the same doctor.
The story is different when it comes to cost though, with 63 percent saying they believe their healthcare costs will rise under the law.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/193853-obamacare-approval-drops-to-record-low-in-cnn-poll
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Fox News Poll: ObamaCare support hits record low
By Dana Blanton
Published January 23, 2014
FoxNews.com
A record high number of voters now oppose the 2010 Affordable Care Act and a record low number supports it, according to the latest Fox News poll.
In addition, a majority thinks the new law will increase their health care costs, while few think it will improve their quality of care.
Click here to view the poll results.
The new poll finds 59 percent of voters oppose the health care law, up from 55 percent who opposed it six months ago (June 2013). The increase in opposition comes from both independents and Democrats.
Nearly a third of Democrats -- 30 percent -- oppose the law, up from 22 percent in June.
Opposition among independents went from 53 percent to 64 percent today.
Overall, 36 percent of voters favor the new health care law. That’s down from 40 percent in June and marks a new low.
Sixty-four percent of Democrats, 29 percent of independents and 11 percent of Republicans like the law.
Enrollment in the Obama health care exchanges began October 1 and the requirement to have qualifying coverage started January 1.
Some apparent reasons for opposition to the law include the fact that majorities think the new law will increase their taxes (63 percent), increase their insurance costs (62 percent) and increase the federal deficit (56 percent).
Meanwhile, just one voter in five thinks Obamacare will increase the quality of their health care (19 percent). More than twice as many expect the quality of their care to get worse (39 percent) and another 37percent think it will stay the same.
By a 44-36 percent margin, voters think the quality of health care for all Americans will decrease rather than increase as a result of the new law.
Voters disapprove of the job President Obama is doing on health care by a 59-38 percent margin.
His highest rating on health care was 48 percent approval in September 2012, while his lowest was 36 percent in November 2013.
Some lawmakers are questioning the security of the health care exchanges and raise the possibility of identity theft for participants. The new poll finds 60 percent of voters lack confidence in the website’s ability to keep their information private. Thirty-seven percent are at least somewhat confident, including nine percent who are “very” confident.
The Fox News poll is based on landline and cell phone interviews with 1,010 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from January 19-21, 2014. The full poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/23/fox-news-poll-obamacare-support-hits-record-low/
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Fox News Poll: Voters regret ObamaCare
By Dana Blanton
Published February 13, 2014
FoxNews.com
Over half of American voters regret that the Affordable Care Act passed, and nearly two-thirds say it never would have -- if we knew then what we know now.
In addition, more than half think the health care law will ultimately be bad for the country, and that it’s more about the government controlling our lives than getting Americans health care.
These are just some of the findings from a Fox News poll released Thursday.
Click here for the poll results.
Fifty-five percent of voters wish the health care law had never passed. That includes majorities of young people under age 30 (55 percent) and those with annual household incomes under $50,000 (52 percent), as well as more than a quarter of Democrats (28 percent).
Some 37 percent are glad the law passed.
The poll also finds that by a 51-42 percent margin, people think in the long run the law will be bad for the country.
Democrats are alone in thinking the health care law will be a good thing in the end: 70 percent feel that way, which is twice the number of independents who say the same (35 percent) and more than five times the number of Republicans (13 percent).
Overall, 64 percent of voters don’t think the law would have passed if we knew back in 2009 what we know today. Majorities of Republicans (74 percent), independents (68 percent) and even Democrats (54 percent) say it wouldn’t have passed.
By a 16 percentage-point margin, people think the health care law is more about the government “controlling our lives” (56 percent) than about “helping individual Americans get the health care they want” (40 percent).
Most Republicans (80 percent) and independents (60 percent) think the health care law is about government controlling our lives. A third of Democrats agree (33 percent).
Meanwhile, only nine percent say their family is better off under the new law. Nearly three times as many say they are worse off (25 percent), while a 65-percent majority says the law hasn’t made any difference to their family.
Before the law went into effect, 21 percent thought their family would be better off, 35 percent worse off and 39 percent thought it wouldn’t make much difference (October 2013).
Fully 76 percent of voters overall and 61 percent of Democrats blame the Obama administration for mismanagement of the roll-out and implementation of the new health care system.
The fallout is less confidence in the government in general: more than four times as many voters say implementation of Obamacare has made them feel less confident (48 percent) in the federal government as say more confident (11 percent). Another 41 percent say it hasn’t made a difference either way.
Of course high opinions of leaders in Washington are in short supply elsewhere too: Just 14 percent of voters approve of the job Congress is doing, while 81 percent disapprove.
The Fox News poll is based on landline and cell phone interviews with 1,006 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from February 9-11, 2014. The full poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/13/fox-news-poll-voters-regret-obamacare/
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FNG idiots.
Fox News Poll: Voters regret ObamaCare
By Dana Blanton
Published February 13, 2014
FoxNews.com
Over half of American voters regret that the Affordable Care Act passed, and nearly two-thirds say it never would have -- if we knew then what we know now.
In addition, more than half think the health care law will ultimately be bad for the country, and that it’s more about the government controlling our lives than getting Americans health care.
These are just some of the findings from a Fox News poll released Thursday.
Click here for the poll results.
Fifty-five percent of voters wish the health care law had never passed. That includes majorities of young people under age 30 (55 percent) and those with annual household incomes under $50,000 (52 percent), as well as more than a quarter of Democrats (28 percent).
Some 37 percent are glad the law passed.
The poll also finds that by a 51-42 percent margin, people think in the long run the law will be bad for the country.
Democrats are alone in thinking the health care law will be a good thing in the end: 70 percent feel that way, which is twice the number of independents who say the same (35 percent) and more than five times the number of Republicans (13 percent).
Overall, 64 percent of voters don’t think the law would have passed if we knew back in 2009 what we know today. Majorities of Republicans (74 percent), independents (68 percent) and even Democrats (54 percent) say it wouldn’t have passed.
By a 16 percentage-point margin, people think the health care law is more about the government “controlling our lives” (56 percent) than about “helping individual Americans get the health care they want” (40 percent).
Most Republicans (80 percent) and independents (60 percent) think the health care law is about government controlling our lives. A third of Democrats agree (33 percent).
Meanwhile, only nine percent say their family is better off under the new law. Nearly three times as many say they are worse off (25 percent), while a 65-percent majority says the law hasn’t made any difference to their family.
Before the law went into effect, 21 percent thought their family would be better off, 35 percent worse off and 39 percent thought it wouldn’t make much difference (October 2013).
Fully 76 percent of voters overall and 61 percent of Democrats blame the Obama administration for mismanagement of the roll-out and implementation of the new health care system.
The fallout is less confidence in the government in general: more than four times as many voters say implementation of Obamacare has made them feel less confident (48 percent) in the federal government as say more confident (11 percent). Another 41 percent say it hasn’t made a difference either way.
Of course high opinions of leaders in Washington are in short supply elsewhere too: Just 14 percent of voters approve of the job Congress is doing, while 81 percent disapprove.
The Fox News poll is based on landline and cell phone interviews with 1,006 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from February 9-11, 2014. The full poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/13/fox-news-poll-voters-regret-obamacare/
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PLUNGE: New poll shows Obamacare support at 26%
By Seth McLaughlin-The Washington Times Friday, March 28, 2014
A new poll shows that just 26 percent of Americans support Obamacare, but at the same time only 13 percent think the law will be completely repealed.
The Associated Press-Gfk survey was completed before the White House announced this week that it had signed up 6 million people for private health plans through the state and federal exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
SEE ALSO: Obamacare health exchange enrollment meets goal
The poll showed that 7 in 10 American believe the law will stay on the books with some changes.
The AP noted that support for the law has dropped 13 points since 2010, when 39 percent favored the law. Opposition also has dipped 7 percentage points from 2010, when it stood at 43 percent. The number of people on the fence, the AP reported, has tripled from 10 percent to 30 percent.
The limited support for the law is similar to what the poll found in January and December when it stood at 27 percent.
Republicans hope that the public opposition to the law will help them defend their House majority and pick up the six net seats they need to flip control of the Senate in the November midterm elections.
The poll was conducted between March 20-24, and it involved online interviews with 1,012 adults. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/28/obama-health-law-fails-gain-support-poll/#ixzz2xHL8z7Ia
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Keeps dropping but democrats refuse to pay attention.
I really hope all those democrats run on a platform of defending crapcare.
If they do, 2010 will seem like nothing at all.
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FORWARD!!!!! ;D
Lol 26%
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He'll never win a 3rd term in office at this rate.
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Keeps dropping but democrats refuse to pay attention.
I really hope all those democrats run on a platform of defending crapcare.
If they do, 2010 will seem like nothing at all.
I heard a number of Democrats running in 2014 are proposing changes to Obamacare.
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NPR Poll: Obamacare a Little More Popular Than Obama
Thursday, 03 Apr 2014
By Melanie Batley
More than half the public opposes Obamacare, but support for the president's signature healthcare law is slightly higher than President Barack Obama's job approval rating, a new poll has found.
According to a National Public Radio poll conducted March 19-23 of 840 likely voters, 51 percent oppose Obamacare, including 40 percent who strongly oppose it. This compares to 47 percent who support the new healthcare law, including 28 percent who strongly favor it.
By comparison, Obama's job approval rating is 46 percent, while 51 percent disapprove. Of those who disapprove, 41 percent say they strongly disapprove, compared to 24 percent who strongly support the president.
The pollsters, one Republican and one Democrat, have different views on what the data suggests in terms of the impact that views on Obamacare will have for Democrats in the 2014 elections.
"The conventional wisdom that it's an unpopular program that hangs around the necks of Democrats is absolutely a misreading of the poll data," Democrat Stan Greenberg, one of the pollsters, said.
Greenberg said that 7 percent of likely voters oppose the law because it doesn't go far enough.
Whit Ayres, the Republican pollster who worked on the survey, however, said the data suggests that Obamacare will still be a great issue for Republicans this fall.
"First, more people oppose than support Obamacare, as has been the case since it passed. Second, the intensity is on the side of opposition, and intensity drives voting behavior. Third, independents oppose Obamacare by 21 points in this survey and they hold the balance of power in this election," Ayres said.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/NPR-poll-Obamacare-Obama/2014/04/03/id/563484#ixzz2xqa12cGS
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Maybe the American voter isn't as stupid as the president thinks?
Gallup: 'New numerical low' for Obamacare
By LUCY MCCALMONT 11/17/14
Support for Obamacare continues to decline, with the law hitting a new low in approval, and a new high in disapproval, as the second enrollment period has opened for Americans, according to Gallup.
Just 37 percent approve of the Affordable Care Act, 1 percentage point less than the previous low recorded in January, Gallup found in a new survey released Monday.
The pollster notes the approval results are a “new numerical low” for Obamacare.
The second enrollment season kicked off on Saturday, with minor snagsl however, enthusiasm for the law remains underwhelming. A majority of Americans disapprove of Obamacare, at 56 percent — a new high, Gallup said.
“The law’s new low in approval — and new high in disapproval (56%) — could potentially have an impact on its future,” the pollster notes, but adds that repeal is still unlikely.
The Gallup poll was conducted Nov.6-9 and surveyed 828 adults. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/poll-obamacare-approval-112948.html#ixzz3JM0gaygc
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A little late in the game.
After midterm drubbing, senior Dems voicing regret over ObamaCare
By Kara Rowland
Published December 04, 2014
FoxNews.com
A strange thing has happened on Capitol Hill. Senior Democrats who were vital in writing and promoting ObamaCare appear to be having a change of heart.
First, there was Sen. Chuck Schumer, the upper chamber's No. 3 Democrat, who voiced regret about his party's misplaced priorities during President Obama's first two years in power, when they possessed a filibuster-proof majority.
"Unfortunately, Democrats blew the opportunity the American people gave them," Schumer told an audience gathered at the National Press Club last week. "We took their mandate and put all of our focus on the wrong problem -- health care reform."
The New York Democrat punctuated his criticism with the disclaimer that health care reform was nevertheless an important issue; it just should have been a bit farther down on the to-do list.
"Americans were crying out for the end to the recession, for better wages and more jobs, not changes in health care," he said.
But Schumer isn't the only Democrat with buyer's -- or lawmaker's -- remorse. In an interview published Wednesday, retiring Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa told The Hill newspaper that ObamaCare didn't go far enough, arguing that the party should have pushed harder for a government-run, single-payer system while it had a filibuster-proof majority -- or dropped it altogether.
"We had the power to do it in a way that would have simplified healthcare, made it more efficient and made it less costly and we didn't do it," Harkin said, according to the Hill. "So I look back and say we should have either done it the correct way or not done anything at all."
The retiring chairman of the Senate health panel, who helped write the law, also laid blame on the White House for not pushing centrist Democrats hard enough on the so-called public option.
Harkin later told reporters on Wednesday that the law "should have been done in the first 100 days" but it "drug on and drug on and drug on."
The remarks are striking, coming from some of Capitol Hill's most senior and influential Democrats.
But they come after the party has suffered two midterm election drubbings -- the most recent of which handed control of the Senate to Republicans -- and the emergence of videos where ObamaCare co-architect Jonathan Gruber is heard claiming the law's authors took advantage of Americans' "stupidity."
Since the law's passage, ObamaCare has been a major theme of Republican campaigns and critics pounded incumbent senators for their votes in favor of the massive law, which remains unpopular among voters (the most recent Real Clear Politics average shows 52.5 percent disapproving of the law with 37.9 percent in favor).
Republican leaders were only too happy to pounce on Schumer's remarks.
"It was fairly remarkable to have the number-three Democrat in the Senate say last week that Obamacare was a mistake," Sen. John Thune, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, told reporters Tuesday. "That is a really, really remarkable statement if you think about it."
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy likewise declared: "I agree with Chuck Schumer."
For their part, Democrats -- including former Obama aides and a former top staffer for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi -- didn't hesitate to push back against Schumer's comments.
Several noted that, as a member of leadership, he not only voted for the bill but was deeply involved in its route to passage.
"Certainly the senator's statement was intended to appeal to Senate Democrats who might be looking for a new leader in the next few years," wrote former Pelosi Chief of Staff John Lawrence, who challenged Schumer's suggestion that the Affordable Care Act only benefited a small percentage of the electorate in a blog post. "It just wasn't necessary, in order to prove he has their backs, to put a dagger into the backs of President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders."
In a tweet, former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett pondered: "So what exactly does Chuck Schumer believe was the error? Does he believe that the goal of winning office is winning office?"
Asked about the fact Republicans are using his comments against him at a Tuesday media availability, Schumer didn't walk them back but pointed out that his entire speech was some 20 pages long. That's "all I'm going to say on that issue," he said.
But if Schumer was right in his post-mortem that Democrats failed to prioritize economic issues, Thune argued the party has not learned the lesson.
"Ironically, the Dems now are talking about issues like immigration, climate - things that get very far afield from the issues that I think the American people care the most about, which is jobs, the economy and how to make their futures better and brighter," the South Dakota Republican said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/04/after-midterm-drubbing-senior-dems-voicing-regret-over-obamacare/
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Fox News Poll: Record 58 percent would repeal ObamaCare
By Dana Blanton
Published December 10, 2014
FoxNews.com
Few American voters feel their family is better off under ObamaCare, and a record number would repeal the law if they could.
In addition, if comments by one of the health care law’s authors about lying to “stupid” Americans are true, over half of voters think President Obama or other administration officials are responsible for that deception.
These are just some of the findings from a Fox News poll released Wednesday.
Click here for the poll results.
Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist who helped develop the health care law, has said several times that a lack of transparency and the stupidity of American voters were critical to getting the law passed.
The new poll finds 56 percent of voters are at least somewhat bothered by Gruber’s comments.
Gruber apologized for his “insensitive” comments during testimony before a House oversight committee hearing Tuesday. One night of the poll’s interviewing was conducted after he testified.
If Americans were lied to about the law, people are most likely to think President Obama (37 percent) or his administration (16 percent) is responsible for that. Another 32 percent blame Congress and 15 percent are unsure.
By a narrow 49-43 percent margin, voters think Gruber’s comments prove the administration intentionally lied about the law. That includes 26 percent of Democrats. Twice as many independents (54 percent) and nearly three times as many Republicans (72 percent) believe Gruber’s comments prove the White House lied.
Insurance plans under the new health care law took effect January 1, 2014. So far, 14 percent say their family is better off under ObamaCare, up from 9 percent in February.
Twice as many people say their family is worse off (28 percent), yet the pain may be all in their head. Consider this: 47 percent of Republicans say their family is worse off compared to just 9 percent of Democrats. And 62 percent of those who are part of the Tea Party movement say their family is worse off under ObamaCare.
Democrats are more than six times as likely as Republicans to say they are better off under ObamaCare (26 percent vs. 4 percent).
Over half -- 57 percent -- say the health care law hasn’t made much of a difference to their family. That’s down from 65 percent who said the same in February.
The poll includes a hypothetical vote question that asks people to choose between only two options: keeping ObamaCare in place and repealing it. A 58-percent majority would vote to repeal the law, while 38 percent would keep it. That’s up from 53 percent a year ago -- and a record high number backing repeal (and a record low number in favor of leaving it in place).
The results follow predictable partisan lines: 67 percent of Democrats would vote to keep the law, while 88 percent of Republicans would repeal it.
Similarly, 60 percent wish President Obama had spent more time on the economy during his first years in office instead of reforming health care versus 37 percent who don’t feel that way. Those sentiments are unchanged since the question was first asked in July 2012.
Thirty-eight percent of voters approve of the job Obama is doing handling health care. That’s two points above the record low 36 percent approval he received last November.
What do voters want Obama to work on right now? The economy is the top priority at 38 percent, followed by ISIS at 21 percent. Next on the list is health care at 12 percent, immigration at 10 percent and race relations follows at 9 percent.
The Fox News poll is based on landline and cell phone interviews with 1,043 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from December 7-9, 2014. The full poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/10/fox-news-poll-record-58-percent-would-repeal-obamacare/
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58% want it repeal, but somehow dumocrats believe it's a success. ::)
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58% want it repeal, but somehow dumocrats believe it's a success. ::)
Andre got obama to pay for washing his balls. Of course it's a success