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kpete

(71,997 posts) Tue Mar 4, 2014, 11:08 AM Mar 2014

Rich, White, Healthy People Are More Likely To Oppose Obamacare

If you're rich, white, healthy and already insured, you probably don't like Obamacare, according to a new analysis by the Urban Institute.

Those were the groups with some of the highest opposition to the health care reform law, the poll found, with a plurality or majority expressing an unfavorable view. More than half of whites (51 percent) opposed the law; 45 percent of those who said they were already insured did as well.

The trend followed with 44 percent of those who make above 400 percent of the federal poverty level, i.e. ineligible for tax help under the law, opposing it; 44 percent of those who reported they were in very good or excellent health said the same.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/poll-rich-white-healthy-insured-obamacare

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Rich, White, Healthy People Are More Likely To Oppose Obamacare (Original Post) kpete Mar 2014 OP

There's a big duh moment gollygee Mar 2014 #1

this ^^^ nt 1awake Mar 2014 #3

Water is wet... Sheets are white... Republicans have lost their minds... nt onehandle Mar 2014 #2

And day follows night brush Mar 2014 #4

It's more of the "I don't want you to have what I have" syndrome that dominates RW policy LonePirate Mar 2014 #5

This is largely what it's about -- with a lot of racism, misogyny, and homophobia in the mix too. hunter Mar 2014 #7

that was kind off a duh survey, though the Urban Institute does have a lot of good reports. Sunlei Mar 2014 #6

gollygee

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1. There's a big duh moment

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Mar 4, 2014, 11:14 AM

Mar 2014

If the medical community was set up to meet your needs, and you didn't have many needs, and you had help paying for what needs you had and could easily afford the rest, you were happy before Obamacare.