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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 02:59 PM Mar 2017

Americans opposition to repealing Obamacare grows, particularly among Deplorables





WASHINGTON
A growing majority of Americans – including a sharply increasing number of Republicans – oppose an outright repeal of Obamacare, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll, signaling trouble for Republicans still hoping to dismantle the 2010 health care law.

Efforts to repeal and replace the law collapsed last week, after GOP lawmakers couldn’t agree on an alternative health care system.

Sixty-five percent of registered voters either want to see the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, maintained as is or strengthened, a seven-point uptick over a February McClatchy-Marist poll that asked the same question. The new poll was conducted between March 22 and 27. Republicans ended last week’s effort to pass a health care plan on March 24.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article141562849.html#storylink=cpy


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Americans opposition to repealing Obamacare grows, particularly among Deplorables (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 OP
Interesting ProfessorGAC Mar 2017 #1
It was pretty widely covered in the news... Blanks Mar 2017 #2
Finding out they were part of that Control-Z Mar 2017 #4
Lol. Yeah, that's the real kicker. eom Blanks Mar 2017 #9
Also when they learned Essential Benefits would be stripped. Kittycow Mar 2017 #5
Once a right has been established it is nearly impossible to take it away. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #3
I'm With You On That ProfessorGAC Mar 2017 #7
Pretty ironic... WoonTars Mar 2017 #6
We need to start shouting "WE WERE RIGHT!". Initech Mar 2017 #8

ProfessorGAC

(65,171 posts)
1. Interesting
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:02 PM
Mar 2017

Now that people realize Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing, perspectives are changing, or so it appears.

Blanks

(4,835 posts)
2. It was pretty widely covered in the news...
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:05 PM
Mar 2017

That 24 million people will lose their health care under the republican plan. That may have had something to do with it too.

Kittycow

(2,396 posts)
5. Also when they learned Essential Benefits would be stripped.
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:19 PM
Mar 2017

I think that's when it hit home. ..because yes ,they would be affected by this, not just the poors.

It seems that a lot of them didn't even realize what protections they had until now.

ProfessorGAC

(65,171 posts)
7. I'm With You On That
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:41 PM
Mar 2017

But, because BHO had this melanin problem, they hated the program because his name was attached to it. Now, the personal impact outweighs BHO's melanin, and they start to change their mind.

Also, interesting. But, it's not about racism.

WoonTars

(694 posts)
6. Pretty ironic...
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:34 PM
Mar 2017

...isn't it? It's like the folks that voted for Dump and then have a spouse/family member deported...

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