Astounding confusion in public's mind over Obamacare
.. it's a pretty rare day that I would post something by Jonathan Goldberg, but this article by him points out the amazing degree of confusion over Obamacare. This of course was the whole point of all the GOP's propaganda and Big Lies re Obamacare .. and it's worked quite well.
Of course, the GOP should thank Corporate media for helping out by continully repeating that "the people don't like Obamacare" but never mentioning that the public overwhelmingly supports health care reform involving most of the necessary steps taken by and in Obamacare - see Kaiser Health Foundation 2009 poll on public's attitude's and understanding of Health care reform.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/09/29/obamacare-affordable-care-act-obama-column/2892183/
A recent CNBC poll found more Americans oppose ObamaCare than oppose the Affordable Care Act. But more Americans support ObamaCare than the Affordable Care Act.
Confused?
That would be understandable given that these are two names for the same law. CNBC polled two different groups, using "ObamaCare" for one and "Affordable Care Act" for the other. Forty-six percent of the group asked about "ObamaCare" opposed it. But only 37% of those asked about the health law opposed it.
Conversely, ObamaCare had higher support than the law. As CNBC put it, Obama's name "raises the positives and the negatives."
As a rational matter, this is nuts. An informed person should have the same opinions — positive or negative — about a piece of legislation regardless of what it's called. But because politics is so often driven by our attitudes toward specific personalities, for many Americans, their attitudes toward a monumentally significant piece of legislation are driven by something as petty as whether "Obama" is in the title.
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