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Posted: Mar 27, 2015

Obamacare By The Numbers

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

President Obama yesterday celebrated the fifth anniversary of Congress’ passage of his national health care law, but most Americans still don’t like it.

Fifty-two percent (52%) of Likely U.S. Voters view the law unfavorably, while 44% share a favorable opinion of Obamacare. This includes 15% with a Very Favorable view and 35% with a Very Unfavorable one.

Democrats continue to be strong fans of the law. Most Republicans and voters not affiliated with either major party don’t care for it. Generally speaking, the older the voter, the more critical he or she is likely to be.

Just after the first of the year, overall unfavorables fell below 50% for the first time since October 2013 but now appear to have rebounded to levels seen in surveys for several years  Prior to that survey, favorables for the law ranged from 36% to 46% since the beginning of 2013, while unfavorables ran as high as 58%. Passion remains on the side of the opponents with Very Unfavorables continuing to outdistance Very Favorables.

Only 13% of all voters believe the law should remain as originally passed by Democrats in Congress.Not a single Republican voted for it. A plurality (46%) continues to think Congress and the president should go through the law piece by piece and improve it, but that’s down from a high of 52% in November. Thirty-five percent (35%) say they should repeal the entire law and start over.

Sixteen percent (16%) say they have been helped by the law. More than twice as many (35%) say they have been hurt by it instead. Forty-seven percent (47%) still have felt no impact, but that number has been inching down from the mid-50s since the law formally went into effect in November 2013.

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to rule later this year on a major legal challenge of the health care law that would eliminate the taxpayer-funded subsidies for many of those who have signed up for health insurance through Obamacare. Nearly half (48%) of voters think it’s a good idea to hold up the law until court cases like this are resolved

The cost of health care  has been voters’ number one concern in surveys since the current health care debate began several years ago. Fifty-nine percent (59%) think reducing the cost of health care is more important than mandating that everyone in America have health insurance.

Supporters of Obamacare argue that this so-called individual mandate will reduce the current cost of health care. But most voters continue to believe those costs will go up, not down, as a result of the new law.

 Just 26% think the quality of health care will improve because of the law. Forty-four percent (44%) expect the quality of care to get worse.

Seventy-four percent (74%) think the law is likely to cost taxpayers more than projected by its supporters.

Also factor in that most voters have health insurance they like. But as recently as late November, 39% said their health insurance had changed as a result of the health care law, and 66% of those voters said the change had been for the worse.

Voters continue to favor more individual cost and coverage options than the law allows. 

A big problem for Obamacare opponents, though, is the growing number of Americans who have bought subsidized health insurance through the federal or state exchanges established under the law. Nineteen percent (19%) of voters say they or a member of their immediate family now have bought health insurance this way, up from four percent (4%) when the exchanges first opened in late 2013. 

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I personally only know of one person who has it. (sm) - (sm)

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He is a young man, in good health, whose place of employment didn't offer insurance. He signed up for the only plan he said he could afford the premiums on, and the deductible is $5000, so he says he can't afford to go to the doctor, but he says he tries to look at it as catastrophic insurance. If something really bad happens, like a car accident, he'll be covered. It's pitiful.

Smart man. The cost of an occasional doctor's visit or test is...sm - Alice

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is manageable for most people but unexpected serious illness or accident can cost in the 10s and 100s of thousands of dollars. Catastrophic coverage is a good thing.

Obamacare BY LAW does require insurance or pay a fine - Cruz no hypocrite- just abiding the law

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Then pay the penalty like other congress members against Obamacare or go on wife's COBRA - Independent

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...but he doesn't want to go on his wife's COBRA or pay the penalty and buy nonemployer private insurance because it's "too expensive."

Obamacare is not the answer, but if there was no Obamacare at all, where would he be right now?

On COBRA or purchase nonemployer insurance out of pocket, both of which were ungodly expensive already BEFORE Obamacare (I took COBRA once and it was $500 a month in the early 2000s) - and I'm quite sure that unlike me, he and his Goldman-Sachs-financial-whiz wife are better able to afford COBRA.

Thousands of Americans are in this situation who are so strongly against Obamacare they paid the penalty and bought nonemployer private, including Congressional Republicans - why is he so special?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/12/09/whats-congress-doing-about-its-own-health-care/

No - he wants you to believe the government is forcing you by law to take Obamacare and it's simply not true - they are making it more difficult to take private insurance, yes, but not mandating that you take Obamacare.

DemAlinsky's have no tolerance for anyone that does - Not do exactly as they say - Cruz

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is damned if he did not get obamacare, damned if he did not get it and pay the fine. DemAlinsky's claim they are not afraid of Cruz, but they are consumed by their hatred for him and anything he does or says.

Since when is it anybody's business what insurance path Cruz PERSONALLY decides for him family? They scream bloody murder over Cruz, who is abiding by the law; but heap their blessings on ILLEGAL ALIENS breaking our laws daily and reaping the benefits of the hardworking 50% taxpayers paying for their law breaking.

Whoa! Who is Demalinsky? - sm

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Ted Cruz stated in an interview what he was doing for insurance, that made it public knowledge. He could have paid the fine on principle as some republicans have done and then just paid out of pocket for any medical expenses...or he could have gotten Cobra insurance via his wife leaving her job. However, he did not. He signed up for "Obamacare" and that makes him a hypocrite.
Yes, it was public statement. Not sure on Demalinsky. Maybe calling Dems Russian-sounding commies? - Independent
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It sounds like a term Ted Nugent came up with, while living in his 1960s underground bomb shelter with his gas mask on, talking to someone named "Commie-Hunter 1" on HAM radio every day about how many listening devices were hidden in his Spam, all the while never realizing the cold war is over, as well as the fact that although Russians are still pretty aggressive, they aren't communists anymore and neither are Democrats (and never were).

Now, here's a fun game. What's wrong with this logic?

"Some Democrats are Communists.
"Some Republicans are Fascists."
"Therefore, all Democrats are Communists and all Republicans are Nazi Fascists."

It's a huge leap in logic and an invalid/unsound argument and therefore illogical, that's what's wrong with it.

Ask Ted Cruz, he went to Harvard Law and should know what a truly logical argument is. Oh wait, never mind...

Otherwise, you're dang right - Adolph-erm-Ted Cruz made that statement publicly and it's now fair game and very relevant to the sorts of 180 he would make on decisions as president, but with plenty of "but..but..but" excuses.

Now, you know if this was Hillary Clinton and written from a private email server, Fox News and others claiming it's "none of our business" would've hacked into marketplace, by now, or paid some former felon to scale the walls of Hillary's mansion, repelled into her bedroom, stolen her wallet and scanned her Obamacare insurance card, and it'd be all over Fox News by now.

Maybe not, though - since unlike Ted, she didn't shut the government down and pitch a big crazy-drama fit as if the president and Congress were 9/11 terrorists, over the debt ceiling, the federal deficit and Obamacare, and then make a public statement about attempting to enroll Obamacare herself, though she had other options.
No different than calling someone a - TPUB - get used to the term
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