ObamaCare and Polls

 

New Poll shows majority of the public dislikes ObamaCare, even more feel uninformed

 

By Dave Andrusko

As the United States House and Senate jockey over funding ObamaCare and the “health insurance exchanges” it created are about to launch, a Washington Post/ABC News poll released today speaks volumes about how the public sees the “Affordable Care Act” three years later.

Overall the results show opposition to ObamaCare and a deep conviction neither the federal government nor the states are prepared. The headline to the ABC News story explaining the results is “Obamacare Arrives 3 Years Later, Little Understood and Not Well-Liked.” What do the results tell us?

First, by a ten point margin (52% to 42%), the public opposes ObamaCare. “The 52% level of opposition to the law is the highest level since April 2012 in this polling series,” writes Ed Morrissey. (ABC News’s Damla Ergun adds, “In 16 ABC-Post polls since August 2009, it has never received majority support.”) Among independents, there is slightly greater opposition—54% to 42%.

Second, women are very unhappy. While 46% of  men support the law,  only 38% of women support ObamaCare. Significantly while Obama’s job performance continues to receive near unanimous support (7 out of 8) from African-Americans, not even half-48%–support what is often called Obama’s “signature domestic accomplishment.”

“Fifty-five percent, further, disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling implementation of the law, with ‘strong’ disapprovers outnumbering strong approvers by a 23-point margin,” Ergun writes.

Asked what effect ObamaCare has had thus far, almost twice as many (36%)  say the law it’s worsened the health care system overall as say it has improved the health care system (19%). The remaining 39% saw no effect as yet.

And the worse number of all is when respondents were asked if felt they have adequate information on the law. Barely a third (35%) said yes, while 62% said no.

Source: NRLC News