Dinner vs a dinner invitation
I am endlessly peeved as I watch so-called "news" people wonder endlessly about the popularity of ACA, and about why people don't seem so excited about the benefits they will get.
It's like getting an invitation to a fancy dinner, months away. There is a small fee, but it sounds like a really great dinner for the price, so you sign up.
If that meal gets cancelled, you might be a little bummed, but you would surely not miss a meal because you would have months to plan for that individual evening's meal.
but
If you are sitting down to eat, today..right now..and you are famished, and after a few bites, someone comes along and takes your plate, and you have no other options for a meal, you are going to be pissed.
Not enough people (people who have been polled) have sat down to the meal, so their future plans are still somewhat "fuzzy".
The polls also do not poll correctly.
The "against" answers do not discriminate between the "We hate everything Obama touches" , and the "Dammit, we wanted Medicare for all" people.
If media started doing proper polls with only 3 possible answers, the truth would be inescapable.
Correct question:
Choose ONE
1) health care we had before Obama changed it
2) Medicare for all
3) Obamacare as it evolves over time.
2 and 3 combined would be the important number, as #1 would probably NEVER go beyond 20%
