"The truth is, Americans love Obamacare"

[applegrove]

The truth is, Americans love Obamacare

By Michael Hiltzik at the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-obamacare-20131001,0,4909537.story

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Tax credits for small businesses to buy insurance: 88% in favor.
Closing the Medicare drug benefit doughnut hole: 81% in favor.
Extension of dependent coverage to offspring up to age 26: 76% in favor.
Expanding Medicaid: 71% in favor.
Ban on exclusions for preexisting conditions: 66% in favor.
Employer mandate: 57% in favor.

If you agree with those provisions, congratulations: You love Obamacare. Yet when respondents are asked how they feel about "Obamacare," they're against it.

The one provision that always polls negatively is the individual mandate. Unfortunately, the mandate is necessary if you're going to outlaw exclusions for preexisting conditions. Without it, you'd bankrupt every health insurer in the country, because people wouldn't enroll until they're sick.



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[Thinkingabout]

1. I am happy the sign up period has arrived. I have been fortunate in my life to have health

Insurance and would have been desperate to get the insurance but am happy it just may be affordable for all to purchase. There are going to be some problems but we can work on them as they are discovered.

[Rex]

2. What is not to love being able to seperate work from health?

This is why the GOP is running around drunk.

[applegrove]

3. And people will be able to leave jobs and start their own businesses without

losing health care for their entire families. And the small/med sized business is where the new jobs are.

[Rex]

5. No more economic terrorism.

Fuck trickle-down GOP hogwash...I believe some of them know by now that the gig is up. They stole and stole in the 80s and 90s and 2000...hell every year really.

[seabeyond]

4. wasnt it nice for the rw to give this program obamas name. now thru out history as it is tweaked

better and better and becomes a part of our society like ss and medicare and medicade, it will be obamacare.... damn, that is gonna steam the rw.

[Rex]

6. Don't forget they also allowed the nation to watch a grown man

read Green Eggs and Ham and fail to not only get the moral of the story, given a long enough duration, decide they fucking hate his guts!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

7. Americans also love progressive policy ideas by large margins, unless of course

you call them progressive or liberal policies. Then, they HATE them. Good grief, the RW propagandists are so much better at it than ours.