Bad News For Democrats: Obamacare Opposition Remains Near All-Time High

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Bad News For Democrats: Obamacare Opposition Remains Near All-Time High by Personal Liberty News Desk March 20, 2014 Democrats up for re-election in 2014 are trying their best to pretend that Obamacare never happened as the party leadership continues to urge them to embrace the healthcare law. But the results of a new survey out from Pew Research makes clear that running on—not away from— Obamacare could bring about big losses for politicians on the left. As the President’s healthcare overhaul nears its four-year anniversary, Pew reports that opposition to Obamacare, at 53 percent, remains near an alltime high. Meanwhile, 41 percent of Americans say they approve of the law. For Democrats, perhaps the most troubling finding in the latest Pew numbers is that Obamacare approval remains virtually unchanged from six months ago when the rollout of the President’s plan was producing daily headlines about major policy and technical issues. Republicans who have offered plans to re-work Obamacare with conservative addendums, rather than scrapping the law altogether, get some good news in the report. Forty-percent of Republicans, 17 percent of Democrats and 36 percent of independents who disapprove of Obamacare said that they would like politicians to find a way to fix it rather than making it fail. But, Pew notes, the Nation’s most conservative voters are still firmly opposed to Obamacare, “Nearly all Republicans and Republican leaners who agree with the Tea Party disapprove of the law (97%) and 60% want elected officials to try to make it fail. A large majority of non-Tea Party Republicans (81%) also oppose the law, but just 25% want politicians to try to make it fail.” Obamacare at Age 4: More Disapproval than Approval As the four-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act approaches, the law remains unpopular with the public. Currently, 53% disapprove of the 2010 health care law while 41% approve of the law. Opinion of the measure is virtually unchanged since last September. However, the new national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Feb. 27-March 16 among 3,335 adults, finds that when opponents of the health care law are asked about the law’s future, more want elected officials to try to make it work than to make it fail. A majority of ACA opponents – representing 30% of the public overall – want politicians to do what they can to make the law work as well as possible, compared with 19% of the public that wants elected


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