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DesideriScuri -> RE: When will decision on Affordable Care Act be announced? (6/19/2012 5:24:04 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
Latest polls show the law in disfavor with the public... and 1/3 of those not in favor feel it doesnt go far enough.
According to the CNN/ORC International survey, 51% of Americans say they oppose the health care law, while 43% say they favor it. It’s important to note, however, that of those who disagree with the law, only a third oppose it because it’s too liberal, while one in six oppose it because it doesn’t go far enough.
18. As you may know, a bill that makes major changes to the country's health care system became law
last year. Based on what you have read or heard about that legislation, do you generally favor or
generally oppose it?
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/06/08/rel5g.pdf
The only issue I have with the wording of the question, is the use of the word, "liberal." That can bring in a touch of politics into the question. A better way to state it (and, this is simply the follow-up question), would be to contrast it as "going too far" versus "not going far enough."
In the end, however, it doesn't matter what the public opinion is of the Act. It can be un-Constitutional whether it's popular or not popular. And, I'm not exactly sure what people know about the law. Lefties will only tout the positives while righties will only tout the negatives. Most of the time, people are going to fall back to one of two default positions: 1. Which party to I usually align with, or 2. What is going to get me more?
Here is an article about a Pew poll.
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"The only winner in this poll is ignorance: The "most dispiriting" part of the Pew poll is that two years after its passage, only 18 percent of respondents claim to understand the law well, versus 31 percent who don't understand it well or at all, says Greg Sargent at The Washington Post. Broadly speaking, the less people know about the law, the more they want the court to throw it out. Maybe that's bad messaging by Democrats, or "the Right's very successful sowing of confusion," but if the Supreme Court kills ObamaCare, it seems few people will know what they're missing.
I don't agree with the Sargent's analysis of why people don't know, but it does go to show that if only 18% of respondents claim to know the law well, wtf have the other 82% been doing? That is a very sad commentary on our Citizenry
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