Obamacare still not popular, but America doesn't trust Trump to fix it

[applegrove]

Obamacare still not popular, but America doesn't trust Trump to fix it

by Joan McCarter at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/16/1548687/-Obamacare-still-not-popular-but-America-doesn-t-trust-Trump-to-fix-it

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The Kaiser Family Foundation has released its monthly health tracking poll, finding as it has pretty much every month of the law's existence that Obamacare is unpopular: "40 percent of Americans reporting favorable opinions of the healthcare law and 46 percent reporting unfavorable opinions." That's just baked in at this point, it seems. But that doesn't mean that there's any disadvantage for Democrats going into this election because of it.

In fact, pluralities trust Democrats more than Republicans to deal with healthcare issues, "including determining the future of the ACA, Medicare, lowering prescription drug costs, and dealing with the opioid epidemic, with the widest issue advantage for either political party being women’s reproductive health." All in all, registered voters give the edge to Democrats on which party represents their views on health care—47 to 35 percent. And they far more trust Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump on that one—46 to 32.

Bar chart showing voters

Even in the hugely partisan divide there is on this issue, Clinton has significantly more support from her base than Trump has from his on health care. But it's also worth noting that Clinton beats Trump among independents 39 percent to 30 percent. Health care isn't at the top of voters' list of key issues, falling in the middle issues that voters find most important for this election, at 37 percent.

Clearly, Obamacare isn't going to be sinking any Democrat this cycle, however much Republicans try to make it so.


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[glennward]

1. Obamacare still not popular because half the people on it don't know they are.

They think they are on something called the Affordable Care Act.

[TheFarseer]

2. Some people, like me

Had their health plan changed from a good health plan to high deductible crap because of the luxury tax and are not big fans of obamacare. Sorry if you don't like hearing that. That's how it is.