Americans increasingly think Democrats have a better plan for healthcare than Republicans, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted after the White House announced that more people than expected had signed up for the "Obamacare" health plan.
Nearly one-third of respondents in the online survey released on Tuesday said they prefer Democrats' plan, policy or approach to healthcare, compared to just 18 percent for Republicans. This marks both an uptick in support for Democrats and a slide for Republicans since a similar poll in February.
"In the last couple of weeks, as the exchanges hit their goals, news coverage has been more positive and the support of the Democratic Party on this issue has rebounded," said Ipsos pollster Chris Jackson.
"It's not that independents are moving their way, it's that Democrats who had previously been a little bit ambivalent in their support are coming back to the party," he said.
As if to drive the point home, Gallup has found that in states that embraced Obamacare, usually blue states, the rate of uninsured fell three times faster than in states which did not, all of which were red states:
The polling firm's data shows states that set up their own exchanges and expanded Medicaid had their uninsured rate fall by 2.5 percent, compared to a 0.8 percent drop in states that have opted out of at least one of the health law programs.
This of course should not come as much of a surprise to people who are not getting their news from conservative talk radio and Fox News.
LA Times: Health insurance gains since last fall hit 12 million, survey shows
ReplyDeletePresident Obama’s health law has led to an even greater increase in health coverage than previously estimated, according to new Gallup survey data, which suggest that about 12 million previously uninsured Americans have gained coverage since last fall.
That is millions more than Gallup found in March and suggests that as many as 4 million people signed up for some kind of insurance in the last several weeks as the first enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act drew to a close.
Just 12.9% of adults nationally lacked coverage in the first half of April, initial data from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index indicates, the lowest rate since the survey began in 2008.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-obamacare-12-million-insured-20140416,0,4218118.story#axzz2z8kb47wN
Houston health care enrollment exceeds forecast
ReplyDeleteMore than 177,000 Houston residents have signed up for health insurance through the federal marketplace, far exceeding expectations for the city.
According to an email obtained by The Associated Press, as of April 5 177,825 Houston residents enrolled for insurance under President Barack Obama's signature law. The email was written by Marjorie McColl Petty, the regional director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Dallas.
The expectation had been that 138,000 Houston residents would sign up. Petty told Houston officials the numbers reflect a successful 13-county regional effort.
http://www.dailytribune.net/news/state/houston-health-care-enrollment-exceeds-forecast/article_31ba0327-0fb9-58bd-8235-ba36929b0de8.html
Conservative crybabies lose again: The right’s laughable new Obamacare conspiracies, officially debunked
ReplyDeleteAs all the GOP's Obamacare attacks are proven wrong, one by one, a new phony conspiracy emerges. It's bunk, too
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/17/conservative_crybabies_lose_again_the_rights_laughable_new_obamacare_conspiracies_officially_debunked
The Repeal Swindle Republicans are pretending to support Obamacare's goals, but they don't
ReplyDelete...Republicans have replaced an unabashed "full repeal!" mantra with a deluge of weasel words meant to conceal the fact that "repeal" is still the beginning and end of their health-care reform agenda. It's still the goal—they're just a little ashamed of it now. And that places an onus on Dems (and reporters and anyone else who believes politicians should own the consequences of their policies) to be extremely explicit about the benefits Obamacare is conferring, and what an unvarnished rendering of GOP health policy would really look like.
As Greg Sargent has been documenting over at The Washington Post, the ACA's optional Medicaid expansion is wrong-footing Republican Senate candidates in expansion states like Arkansas, Michigan, and New Hampshire, because their position (repeal) now entails kicking tens or hundreds of thousands of people in their states off of Medicaid.
Rather than own up to that, Representative Tom Cotton, the Republican who's challenging incumbent Senator Mark Pryor in Arkansas, served up the following word salad: "We would repeal Obamacare and replace it entirely with many reforms for our health care program…. We want every Arkansan, we want every American, to have quality, affordable access to health care."
The reality of the Medicaid expansion is sucking the oxygen out of the GOP's broader Obamacare strategy, and Cotton, along with Scott Brown in New Hampshire and Terri Lynn Land in Michigan, are caged canaries finding out the hard way.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117402/republican-position-obamacare-makes-no-sense-anymore
WE MADE HISTORY!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TchHcgpfS4Y
Barack Obama had a vision. His mother's death locked it down. He acted, in the face of fire from all sides, stayed true to his vision and is seeing the fruits of his vision take shape in the form of millions having the relief of healthcare, many for the first time in their lives. He will go down in history with the 'greats' of our time, and the right wing is losing their collective minds over it. And to that I say...HA! WE WON! and OBAMACare is here to stay and his NAME will forever be attached to it, and you only have YOURSELVES to blame for that! LOL!
ReplyDeleteAmericans are just discovering that trust? Republicans have been the fucking heartless party for more than a generation.
ReplyDelete8 plus million signed up through the market place
ReplyDelete3 million more young adults are on their parents plan
5 million on expanded medicare programs
5 million more signed up directly with insurance companies
21 million more Americans have healthcare coverage than in December 2013.
While the GOP was on break and Snowden saw his own shadow, President Obama gave a speech about the Affordable Health Care Act. It was a blueprint for Democrats running against Republican held states. The numbers don't lie, and it's a success.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/17/the-one-sentence-from-president-obamas-press-conference-that-democrats-should-pay-attention-to/
In other news, Former President Bill Clinton and Former First Lady Hillary are going to be grandparents!!!!!!!!