Polls show growing support for Obamacare

[ProSense]

Polls show growing support for Obamacare

By Steve Benen



A new Gallup poll was released this morning showing public support for the Affordable Care Act inching higher, from 41% in August to 45% now. In isolation, that’s a pretty modest shift in a single poll, and hardly worth getting excited about. But it’s not the only poll showing improved support for “Obamacare.”

This week, four national polls have been released – Gallup, CBS News, CNN, and ABC/Washington Post – and all four show the health care law more popular now than the last time the pollsters asked.

To be sure, you can look at the chart I put together and see that in each instance, support for the law is below 50%, so it’s obviously far too soon to characterize the Affordable Care Act as “popular.” It’s not.

But the shift in public attitudes comes as a bit of a surprise. The only major news related to the law in recent weeks has been considerable coverage of technical problems with the system’s website. I largely expected the polls to show declining favorability in light of all the negative press coverage.

And yet, there are four independent, national polls showing the exact opposite.

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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/polls-show-growing-support-obamacare

Obamacare off to great start in Kentucky, Washington, Oregon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023902058

[NYC_SKP]

1. But, but, the launch, failure, Sebelius, BENGHAZI!!!!11

[ProSense]

3. Those two morons likely believe they can keep the glitch nonsense going for as long.

The dog is smarter.

[NYC_SKP]

4. What's amazing is the help they're getting from the (finger quotes) left.

Even on this board, posting one story after another about the "failure", and now the "lawsuits" that will follow, I'm sure it's innocent but annoying just the same.

Give it a rest, I say...

Sheesh.

[ProSense]

6. Like I said in another thread, the media count on people pushing their lies. n/t

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. Hamsher & Norquist must be falling down on the job. Rec!

[Downtown Hound]

5. I can hear the Republicans already:

"S'okay. All we needs to do is shut the governments down againz. The peoples will rallize to are cauze."

[ProSense]

7. Republicans are confused, and whining:

The GOP’s newfound interest in healthcare briefings

By Steve Benen

On Capitol Hill today, Michael Hash, who leads the HHS Office of Health Reform, will join House Democrats at their weekly meeting to discuss the rollout of the Affordable Care Act. It will be the first time an Obama administration official briefs members of Congress since the open-enrollment period launched three weeks ago.

Republicans are outraged.

“Far too much information about Obamacare’s rollout is being concealed from the public,” said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner. “All members – as well as the American people – deserve answers for this debacle. That’s why we have asked the administration to provide the same briefing to House Republicans. This snub is all the more offensive after Secretary Sebelius declined to testify at a House hearing this week. It’s time for the Obama administration to honor its promises of transparency and face some accountability.”

At first blush, this probably seems persuasive. After all, the Affordable Care Act is a national law affecting everyone, and it stands to reason the Obama administration should provide detailed information to lawmakers in both parties, not just allies. Perhaps Republicans are right to complain about this “snub.”

Or perhaps not. Democratic officials have been quick to note that the Obama administration reached out to the House Republican Leadership on Sept. 25 to offer the exact same briefing House Democrats will receive today.

Republicans didn’t respond and now claim they don’t remember learning of the offer.

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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-gops-newfound-interest-aca-briefings

[Pretzel_Warrior]

8. kick

[cali]

9. this is good news.

k&r

[ProSense]

10. Kick! n/t

[sheshe2]

11. Kick for Great News!