More Americans want to keep the Affordable Care Act as it is or expand it than want to get rid of it, according to a new poll released Friday.
The Kaiser Family Foundation found that 47 percent of Americans want to expand (22 percent) or keep the law (25 percent). Conversely, 37 percent said they wanted to either repeal the law and replace it with some Republican alternative (13 percent) or repeal it without replacing it (24 percent).
That's despite the fact that more Americans have an unfavorable view of the law (44 percent) than a favorable view (38 percent), according to Kaiser.
The poll surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,513 Americans ages 18 and over. It was conducted from Oct. 17 to 23.
I think this is a rather small sampling, but I would bet my house that it pretty damn accurate.
Let's face it, the Republicans are offering nothing except attacks against the law with nothing to replace it in order to meet out health care needs.
I think most Americans who are not suckling at the Fox News teat realize that.
I'm more interested in the poll of March 2014 after Obamacare is actually on the ground. The "repill" vote will stay the same but that'll only be the braindead Cruzbaggers bleating. They'll go to their graves still bleating "repill"- which is a mental image I couldn't fail to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteGRYPHEN!!! STOP BAGGING ON RAFAEL "TED" CRUZ!!!
ReplyDelete(btw, Tiger Beat magazine has a cover story on America's "Dreamiest Conservative" in this issue - also featuring a pictorial of the 13 year old Nebraska cattle prod heiress who spent $11 million to construct a treehouse in the shape of Justin Beavers' head - and reveals he likes to be called "Taffy" in the bedroom. Who knew, eh?)
Anyway, your comments about Ted, I mean Taffy, are screwing up some very delicate negotiations and I beg you to stop immediately!
As you know, CNN is reporting that Taffy's dad, Canadio-Cuban secret agent Gonsalvo "El Douchebag" Cruise is reported to have urged President Barack HUSSEIN Obama to return to his non-native Kenya rather than successfully stand for re-election in 2012. Fortunately, Obama ignored Cruise's request.
Now, here' the EXCITING part: without going into a lot detail, a tentative deal has been reached whereby Cruz AND his entire miserable family will agree to leave America forever in exchange for the Obama family sending any dog that looks like their beloved Bo to Kenya for a minimum of 4 weeks.
(I know, these Cruzarians are not great negotiators, but we learned that during the government shutdown/debt ceiling debacle)
So stop talking about Taffy, let's get this deal done and we'll never have to hear about him or El Douchebag ever again!
If you didn't know this already, Gryphen, this will make your blood boil! They are such criminal assholes!
ReplyDeleteRepublicans Deliberately Sabotaged the ACA Website, Hoping the Law Would Implode
For weeks I’ve been wondering why no one is talking about how Republicans sabotaged the ACA rollout by refusing to implement state run marketplaces, and thus unexpectedly forcing all of that additional burden on to the federal website.
It reminded me of Republicans denying security funding for Benghazi and then blaming Obama and Clinton for the lack of security in Benghazi. The media were oddly uninterested in that alarming fact.
But today, Todd Purdum at Politico exposed how Republicans sabotaged the ACA rollout. One small part of their plan was the rejection of the state run exchanges.
But also, Purdum points out, Republicans refused to fund the extra work on the website after the states refused to do their parts, leaving the administration to cobble funding together for Healthcare.Gov. Putting this extra burden on the website was a deliberate effort to cause the law to “implode” on itself.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/11/01/republicans-deliberately-sabotaged-aca-website-hoping-implode.html
The Obamacare sabotage campaign
To the undisputed reasons for Obamacare’s rocky rollout — a balky website, muddied White House messaging and sudden sticker shock for individuals forced to buy more expensive health insurance — add a less acknowledged cause: calculated sabotage by Republicans at every step.
That may sound like a left-wing conspiracy theory — and the Obama administration itself is so busy defending the indefensible early failings of its signature program that it has barely tried to make this case. But there is a strong factual basis for such a charge.
...The opposition was strategic from the start: Derail President Barack Obama’s biggest ambition, and derail Obama himself. Party leaders enforced discipline, withholding any support for the new law — which passed with only Democratic votes, thus undermining its acceptance. Partisan divisions also meant that Democrats could not pass legislation smoothing out some rough language in the draft bill that passed the Senate. That left the administration forced to fill far more gaps through regulation than it otherwise would have had to do, because attempts — usually routine — to re-open the bill for small changes could have led to wholesale debate in the Senate all over again.
But the bitter fight over passage was only the beginning of the war to stop Obamacare.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/the-obamacare-sabotage-campaign-99176.html#ixzz2jPFucGTR
As The GOP Sinks To a New Record Low, Republicans See Ted Cruz as Their Leader
ReplyDeleteEven though favorability of the Republican Party has sunk to a new all time low this week, a new PPP poll found that Republicans see Cruz as their leader.
Sen. Ted Cruz caused the government shutdown. He is the reason why approval of the Republican sunk to a new record low of 22% this week. One might think that the last person Republicans would view as their new leader would be the man who is most responsible for their misery. However, the Republican Party is in a place where they reward failure if it is done in the name of ideological purity.
This is exactly what has happened to Ted Cruz. According to a new PPP poll, 21% of GOP voters selected the Texas senator as their leader. Seventeen percent picked Chris Christie, 15% chose John Boehner, 9% went with Rand Paul, Mitt Romney showed up with 8%, John McCain was selected by 7%. Sarah Palin and Mitch McConnell each received 4%. Interestingly, Democrats (25%) and Independents (27%) both see Chris Christie as the leader of the GOP.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/11/01/gop-sinks-record-low-republicans-ted-cruz-leader.html
Steve Schmidt, Former John McCain Adviser: A Lot Of Republicans 'Wish Ted Cruz Would Go Back To Canada'
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/01/ted-cruz-canada_n_4190918.html
...and a lot of Canadians sincerely hope he won't!
DeleteWe got enough troubles with Harper and Ford. Good God what ever did we do to inflict Cruz on us as well. Have we not paid enough already.
DeleteAll Hail King Rafel!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsoqfAJO39M
Due his reported "anointing", shouldn't the fleeceables flocking to him refer to him as King Rafel?
He is, after all, on a church sanctioned mission from hiz god to transfer all the wealth from the unfaithful to those with the right version of xtianity.
"the fleeceables"
DeleteGood one
America Has Never Faced The Threat Posed by the Koch Brothers and Congressional Republicans
ReplyDeleteMost Americans are confident that their nation will remain fundamentally unchanged forever and in part it is due to the once stable functioning government. However, as world leaders, political scholars, and economists have noted, America’s government has been, for all intents and purposes, brought to a standstill due to Republican denial they lost two presidential elections. There is a faction in this country made up of wealthy oligarchs, religious fanatics, and conservative extremists who have intimated in various ways their only raison d’être is to destroy America from within and transform it into a mirror image of a stone-age nation like Afghanistan under Taliban rule. The war for America has been in the planning stages for two decades, but when American voters elected (twice) an African American man as President the insurgency began enacting their plan to destroy the federal government and by extension the country itself.
The groups lusting to destroy America and transform it into a libertarian theocracy certainly know that their goal could never reach fruition if they announced they were actively seeking to eliminate the functioning government, so they use catch phrases such as the Koch brothers’ infamous “transforming America” to fit their lawless vision of a nation without rules and regulations. Their staunch ally, Grover Norquist has been forthcoming that his goal is to “shrink government down to a size he can drown in a bathtub,” but his goal, like the Koch brothers, is a nation steeped in anarchy where peasants are at the mercy of a few wealthy industrialists. Although the Kochs and Norquist wield inordinate power and influence over a major political party, they are not elected representatives and depend on dark money and loyalty oaths to control Republicans at the state and federal level to enact their anti-government agendas. Now they have a powerful ally in the U.S. Senate who controls Republicans in the House and Senate and last Sunday he let it slip that his ultimate goal is destroying America.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/11/01/america-faced-threat-posed-koch-brothers-congressional-republicans.html
Looks to me like Obamacare is just a scam to make people lose their old insurance and make them buy new, more expensive policies filled with services they don't need and higher deductibles and co-pays.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20131101/thousands-notified-health-insurance-cancellations-alaska
Yup................
ReplyDeletehttp://news.msn.com/us/sticker-shock-often-follows-insurance-cancellation#tscptmf
Our GOP committeeman left a one page double spaced letter in people's mailboxes, announcing a meeting in his office on the REAL dangers of Obamacare. I passed by about twenty minutes after it started, and there was a very short line. A lot shorter than the line at the Post Office of people filing complaints against him for putting material that wasn't stamped with the Postmaster General.
ReplyDeleteAnd I live in a traditionally "red" district in a "blue" state. Hey, you get what you pay for, a barebones policy may make you feel like you saved money, but once you're sick, you're on your own because it just about covers bare bones.