ObamaCare Remains Unpopular With Just Republicans? It is no secret that most republicans are against virtually any policy that hands more control of American’s lives and wallets over to the Federal Government especially one that includes a federal mandate, such as ObamaCare. Supporters of the president’s not so grand political achievement are being very naive in their belief that the sinking popularity of ObamaCare is not coming from within their own base as well as the oh so important independent voters who will likely be the deciding factor in both the coming mid-term election as well as the 2016 presidential election. Republicans have been steady in their disapproval of the law. Any new and growing dissention over ObamaCare has to be coming from elsewhere. Since ObamaCare was passed into law in early 2010, democrats have repeatedly claimed that the law will become more and more popular as time goes on and people begin to feel the benefits, including significant cost savings, ObamaCare will provide to every American. Having repeated such claims time and again over the past four years, the fact remains that ObamaCare has become a major burden on tens of millions of Americans, remains to be a major contributor to our stalled economy and as a result remains to be highly unpopular even amongst many democrats. Since its inception, ObamaCare has not once been popular with the majority of Americans, not even close. The law did receive its most favorable (un)popularity ratings leading up to the 2012 presidential election but still remained unpopular by over a 6% margin. No doubt that newfound popularity was a result of the massive ad campaigns launched by democratic super packs which made claims of the grandeurs of the law, which by the way have never come to fruition, as well as an array of negative ads that painted republicans as the party who hated the old, the young, the poor and the unhealthy alike. The president’s namesake healthcare law managed to maintain its “least worst” popularity ratings through the 2013 presidential inauguration after which it was business as usual and the law’s popularity began to fall, soon returning to the double digit unpopularity ratings it had grown accustom to throughout most of its life as a law. Claims, such as “more and more Americans are embracing the new law” and “the majority of Americans are feeling the benefits of ObamaCare”, which are so often repeated by the likes of Nancy Pelosi and other liberal talking heads so deeply invested in ObamaCare, simply do not fit the week enrollment the federally mandated law recently experienced. It is understandable that they persist in their insistence that the law is doing well but enrollment speaks far louder than political rhetoric and poll numbers. The highly controversial Medicaid expansion failed to attract more than one third of its projected 9 million during the first six months of the expansion. Worse yet, it looks as though qualified healthcare plans, “purchased and paid for” by the formerly uninsured, during the initial six month open enrollment period, number in the low 2 million area or maybe even less. Ironically, it seems that actually participating in ObamaCare is equally as unpopular with democrats as it is with republicans, at least so it is perceived judging from the failure of the party to come flocking to the exchanges to sign up for their beloved healthcare law!
Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2014 14:50:19 +0000
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