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Originally posted by utherpendragonThe 29% repeal is quite a bit lower than the 70% to 80% numbers spouted by right wingers the past few weeks.
[b]Gallup Poll. Oct. 12-13, 2013
"Next, we'd like to ask you about the Affordable Care Act, the law President Obama signed in 2010 that restructured the U.S. health care system. What would you like to see Congress do with the health care law: keep the health care law in place as it is, make minor changes to the health care law, make major ch ...[text shortened]...
expand -14%
keep as is -24%
scale back -21%
repeal entirely -29%
unsure -13%[/b]
As for those wanting many changes, about half want a more aggressive healthcare law such as single-payer.
As for those wanting minor changes, many recognize that the ACA will be tweaked and revised as time goes on. I personally fall into that camp.
23 Oct 13
Originally posted by utherpendragonOh, I see you posted some new numbers. I went to the Gallup website to reference the poll you cite. Where is the big overwhelming popular support for repeal?
[b]Gallup Poll. Oct. 12-13, 2013
"Next, we'd like to ask you about the Affordable Care Act, the law President Obama signed in 2010 that restructured the U.S. health care system. What would you like to see Congress do with the health care law: keep the health care law in place as it is, make minor changes to the health care law, make major ch ...[text shortened]...
expand -14%
keep as is -24%
scale back -21%
repeal entirely -29%
unsure -13%[/b]
Americans' Desire to Modify Healthcare Law Down From 2011
Yet 29% still want law repealed
by Frank Newport
PRINCETON, NJ -- Half of Americans today want the Affordable Care Act repealed or scaled back, down from 57% in January 2011. There has been essentially no change in the percentage of Americans who want the law expanded or kept as it is.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/165428/americans-desire-modify-healthcare-law-down-2011.aspx
23 Oct 13
Originally posted by moon1969sorry I should have posted my link.
Oh, I see you posted some new numbers. I went to the Gallup website to reference the poll you cite. Where is the big overwhelming popular support for repeal?
[quote][b]Americans' Desire to Modify Healthcare Law Down From 2011
Yet 29% still want law repealed
by Frank Newport
PRINCETON, NJ -- Half of Americans today want the Affordable Ca ...[text shortened]... /quote]
http://www.gallup.com/poll/165428/americans-desire-modify-healthcare-law-down-2011.aspx[/b]
this is where i am at,
http://www.pollingreport.com/health.htm
23 Oct 13
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Originally posted by utherpendragonThat is about the same as the President's approval rating.
make major changes (because it sucks) and repeal entirely comes out to 50%
Further, something you completely and conveniently ignore, is that a portion of those wanting to make major changes want a more liberal ACA (i.e., single-payer).
Clearly, less then half of the American people (only 29% ) support repeal of the ACA, as demanded by the Tea Party. And this is per the poll you cite.
23 Oct 13
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Originally posted by moon1969
That is about the same as the President's approval rating.
Further, something you completely and conveniently ignore, is that a portion of those wanting to make major changes want a more liberal ACA (i.e., single-payer).
[b]Clearly, less then half of the American people (only 29% ) support repeal of the ACA, as demanded by the Tea Party. And this is per the poll you cite.[/b]
Further, something you completely and conveniently ignore, is that a portion of those wanting to make major changes want a more liberal ACA (i.e., single-payer). -moon1969
direct me to where "wanting to make major changes" is referring to a desire for "single payer". I must be be missing something.
23 Oct 13
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Originally posted by utherpendragonWhether it is not it single payer, a portion of the poll you cite want to expand the ACA. A portion of the poll I cite say the ACA is not liberal enough. Other polls specifically address the phrase "single-payer".Further, something you completely and conveniently ignore, is that a portion of those wanting to make major changes want a more liberal ACA (i.e., single-payer). -moon1969
direct me to where "wanting to make major changes" is referring to a desire for "single payer". I must be be missing something.
That has been the discussion from the left (about 15% ) opposed to the ACA is that they oppose the ACA because they want a single-payer system like in the rest of the industrialized world. They are at the opposite extreme of the Tea Party, right?
23 Oct 13
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Originally posted by utherpendragonI agree that the Gallup poll you cited does not mention single-payer.Further, something you completely and conveniently ignore, is that a portion of those wanting to make major changes want a more liberal ACA (i.e., single-payer). -moon1969
direct me to where "wanting to make major changes" is referring to a desire for "single payer". I must be be missing something.
Anyway, still look at the numbers you cite from that Gallup poll. Interesting that 14% want to "expand" the ACA. Is this a "major change?"
Is this 14% to expand the ACA lumped and cited by the Tea Party as evidence that Americans do not want the ACA and that Americans do not want government involved in healthcare?
expand -14%
scale back -21%
