Most Americans want Obama care REPEALED

[bigdarryl]

I call this polling BULLSHIT It depends on how the question is asked.If you ask parents who have kids on there plan I bet you will get a different answer.Ask those senior citizens about the doughnut hole and see if they want ithttp://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/quinnipiac-poll-repeal-obamacare/2012/02/24/id/430515 repealed.

[aquart]

1. Newsmax is not a reliable source.

[sakabatou]

2. +1

[bigdarryl]

5. True but its a Quinnipiac poll

[Black and Gold]

3. I personally...

don't think it is the best thing for the country.

[Scuba]

4. I'd like to see it repealed...

... and replaced with Medicare for All.

[earthside]

15. I would answer 'repeal'.

My reason, however, is from a liberal/progressive perspective.

Single-payer or Medicare-for-All.

The individual mandate in Obamacare that would force me to buy insurance from a private, for-profit corporation makes me furious.

And, though it may be good for my 23 year old son, the fact that I may have to pay for his health insurance until he is 26 years old doesn't exactly thrill me either -- yet this is touted as some kind of great advance.

Finally, it still sticks in my craw that Pres. Obama sold us out on the public plan option and on pharmaceuticals.

[JNathanK]

22. Yah, I don't see what the dispute over a single payer system is.

I really don't. If I remember right, Bob Dole proposed the same thing in the 90's.

[crunch60]

31. Since it's inception in 1965, Medicare

has improved substantially. Many fought against it, but it has been a lifesaver for many seniors, and a very successful program. I hope Obama care will improve as well. I do feel he made to many concessions to the Repukes (die quickly). Obama should have fought harder for single payer, universal coverage.
Does the good outweigh the bad with the new health reform bill?
Don't know for sure, because I haven't read the 2,000 page document, only parts of it. It will take time I'm afraid.

Link to improvements of Medicare over the years.

http://ssa.gov/history/pdf/WhatMedicareMeant.pdf

[bigdarryl]

6. Here's a complete break down of the polling

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=1709

[ProSense]

13. It also

states that most Americans support the Arizona immigration law.

In fact, voters say 50 - 39 percent, including 51 - 37 percent among independent voters, that the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn Obama's health care reform law. Voters approve 64 - 32 percent of Arizona's immigration law and say 61 - 31 percent they want the Supreme Court to uphold it.

I wouldn't put too much stock in this poll.

[earthside]

18. Sounds like a pretty good poll.

Most Americans probably do believe that the economy is still in recession because it is in the real world of working and middle class folks. Maybe not from the perspective of egghead statisticians and economists, but from the everyday reality of pretty much zero wage growth, rising inflation, soaring gasoline prices, and over eight percent unemployment.

Who is surprised that Obamacare is favored to be repealed? There are plenty of people on the left who don't like it either.

Finally, most polling has shown that a majority of Americans are not happy about illegal immigration. So, they may not know the specifics of Arizona's law, but they do want something done about illegal immigration ... including me.

But there is plenty in the poll that aligns with the President and Democrats.

Quinnipiac usually does a fairly accurate poll, in my opinion.

[bayareamike]

7. 66 percent of voters think we're in a recession?

[Ter]

29. We're not?

I thought we were.

[bayareamike]

33. Nope.

Not sure if that was sarcasm..but no, we're not.

Granted, times are VERY tough for millions of Americans -- many of my family members and friends are roughing it out day after day -- but we're not in a recession. The economy has been growing since mid-2009. We're pulling out of the hole, no thanks to the GOP.

Things ARE getting better.

[MADem]

8. It's Newsmax. They're the same idiots who told their readers that Dubya was beloved

when he was polling in the teens.

You're right to call the polling bullshit, because it is.

[appleannie1]

9. Newsmax leans right and their polls can be freeped.

[TransitJohn]

10. It's a Quinippiac Univ. poll eom

n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Newsmax? Are you kidding?

Newsmax?

[demosincebirth]

12. Newsmax is not a source

[JNathanK]

24. Newsmax is Newspeak

[demosincebirth]

26. News source scale of 1-10? Newsmax - 5

[B Calm]

14. Replaced with Medicare For All

[etherealtruth]

16. improved yes ...

repealed ... only if it were to be replaced by a single provider system

[pampango]

17. FWIW, past polls have shown that "Obamacare" is not as popular as are its provisions.

Not sure whether this is due to the consistent beating that "Obamacare" gets from republicans and in the press or what.

The trick for the republicans will be to make the campaign against "Obamacare" as an amorphous ("big government", "socialist&quot health care program. While for Democrats the idea will be to campaign on the specific provisions of ACA and let the republicans try to argue against the specifics.

[veganlush]

19. first, it's crappy pollster

second, the democrats have done a terrible job explaining the ACA to the public, so the public is ignorant. the ACA is like auto insurance. The individual mandate means that the cost of the uninsured showing up for care is shifted from the insured and the tax payers, where is is pre-ACA, to private insurance companies, where it belongs. Most people don't know this, even many, many democratic voters, because the leadership has done an amazing poor job explaining it. They find it easier to distance themselves from it because many of THEM haven't taken the time to understand it.

I have an uninsured relative who went to the emergency room with a swollen face. It turned out to be an infection from a piercing through his lip. It was a dangerous infection and a minor surgical procedure was required along with a two night stay and antibiotics. As an uninsured young man, he paid nothing. The hospital pays for these things from several directions. They "write off" losses for such as "charitable giving" to reduce tax liability which that takes care of a portion. This reduction in tax liability gets made up by others paying more in taxes, and/or deficits growing, in others words, there's no free lunch. They also charge insured people more for everything to offset some of the rest of their "loss". That's where eight dollar aspirins and many other inflated prices come from. Lastly, they cut their CEO's bonuses (NO I made that last one up just to see who's paying attention) "obamacare", on the other hand, will require my relative to buy his own PRIVATE insurance policy. This is how Obamacare shifts the burden of the uninsured from the insured and the taxpayers to the newly INSURED and the PRIVATE insurance companies.

[JDPriestly]

20. I don't believe that.

Since most of the package has not come into effect and very few Americans really understand what it is or will do, it is too soon to know what Americans think of it.

[bhikkhu]

21. If you gave that same "most" a quick quiz on Obamacare -

I'm pretty sure you could demonstrate that they don't know the first thing about it.

[spanone]

23. most americans don't have a clue what it is.

[TheKentuckian]

25. Many that do like it even less. One can be fond of a feature or even a few and

still be against the plan in general.

Are there a bunch of people who don't get that the underlying system is unchanged and think some scary new evil is going to unfold based on fear attacks. Sure, but that isn't all of the opposition by any stretch.

Don't be shocked if familarity breeds even greater contempt, we let the TeaPubliKlans pack their brainchild with all kinds of amendments with nary a vote.

[Motown_Johnny]

27. Newsmax and Quinnipiac, may as well ask Rush and Beck

just not reliable sources

[donheld]

28. Newsmax?

You are not new here. You should know better.

[marlakay]

30. I think it's the mandate part

People like the rest of it.

[joshcryer]

32. CNN Poll: Support rises for health insurance mandate

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/14/cnn-poll-support-rises-for-health-insurance-mandate/

[YellowRubberDuckie]

34. They've never read the bill.

They are only listening to the people who are most against it: The right and the health insurance providers. It has nothing to do with the truth. The bill is actually really good for the American people. It just isn't good for health insurance companies who keep letting people die so they can buy their next vacation home in Bora Bora or something.