Obamacare is unpopular??? REALLY???

[a kennedy]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/obamacares-unpopularity-suggests-medicare-for-all-may-be-a-hard-sell/. Ok, ok, so did I read this article wrong??? I just read some of it so is this what the article was saying???

[TwilightZone]

1. The headline doesn't really match the article.

Net favorability of the ACA is slightly positive and has been increasing (as the article noted) since Trump took office.

It seems that they're talking more about the historical unpopularity (which, to some extent, was true pre-Trump) rather than the current levels. At present, it's 48/41 favorable/unfavorable.

https://www.kff.org/interactive/kff-health-tracking-poll-the-publics-views-on-the-aca/#?response=Favorable--Unfavorable&aRange=all

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Lots of really really dumb fucking people dont understand they HAVE Obamacare now

to include many services paid for not previously paid for and preexisting not applying and more

dumb fuckers

[BigmanPigman]

3. "Really, really" is accurate.

The really dumb idiots realized it was the same thing as the ACA only when it was threatened to be taken away two years ago. Duh?!? When you listen to Fux Ruse calling it Obamacare for 10 years your brain turns to mush. Now the really, really moronic cult are finally waking up? Survival of the fittest leaves them behind.

[GulfCoast66]

5. I don't have The ACA. Get excellent healthcare insurance from my employer.

But it was made much better by the ACA. Maximum out of pocket caps, no pre-existing exemptions, more things mandated for coverage. We don’t have kids but allowing them to stay till they are 26.

Suburban voters took us to victory last November. Most don’t have ACA but are in my boat. But they like what the ACA gave them.

[dawg day]

7. I've gotten 2 premium refunds

Because the ACA requires insurers to refund money if they don't spend most of the premium amount on healthcare.

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. WRONG

YOu do have ACA

we all do

sigh

ACA is what our healthcare system is now, that some are able to get discounted premiums thru the ACA has nothing to do with the fact that our entire system now is based on the ACA.

Not mad at you but this misconception drives me crazy

[GulfCoast66]

10. That was kind of my point. I should have been more accurate,

And stated I do not get my insurance thru the ACA marketplace.

But my insurance coverage is regulated and actually made better by the ACA.

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. YES, THANKS sorry, I am pissed at the moment that now that we see epstein was murdered

that any of us doubted it for a second

When liberals doubt he was murdered that tells me some of us STILL have not learned who we are dealing with

[Turbineguy]

4. It's unpopular among republicans

who haven't yet found out they have cancer.

[subterranean]

6. It WAS unpopular (in 2014), but now it's not.

Its unpopularity was largely due to the individual mandate. People mostly liked the other provisions.

The point was that like the ACA, people may support Medicare for All in theory, but once the details become clear, support will be dragged down by its most unpopular elements (for example, elimination of private insurance, higher taxes, etc.)

[elocs]

9. Pre-Trump I always thought that when Obamacare became really successful

that Republicans would stop calling it Obamacare so as not to give any credit to a Democratic president.