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"Obamacare’s most popular provisions are its least well known" - Ted King - 03-23-2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/22/obamacares-most-popular-provisions-are-its-least-well-known/
It is, by now, so well known as to be almost a cliche: Obamacare is unpopular even though most of its major provisions are highly popular. But this Kaiser poll adds to our understanding. What you’re seeing in those long blue lines at the bottom is that Obamacare’s least popular elements — the individual mandate, the employer penalty — are also its best known. And some of its most popular elements — closing the Medicare Part D “donut hole,” creating insurance exchanges, extending tax credits to small businesses — are its least well known.
In fact, the situation is even a bit worse than that. Many of Obamacare’s more popular elements are actually becoming less well known with time:
Is this lack of knowledge about what is in the ACA more the fault of the media or the administration for not emphasizing these things more or pretty much both? I'm inclined to think it is both - and that is a shame because the ACA should be judged on what it really contains, not the misconceptions that seem to dominate too many people's judgments.
Re: "Obamacare’s most popular provisions are its least well known" - deckeda - 03-23-2013
It's a case of continually shooting the messenger. There are some very good parts to it, none of which the President gets credit for because of who he is. Instead, any imperfection gets rolled into "Obamacare" with zero differentiation because of willful ignorance.
See also: "missing the forest for th trees"
Re: "Obamacare’s most popular provisions are its least well known" - cbelt3 - 03-23-2013
Exactly how are healthcare exchanges considered a 'popular element' ? They are a highly unknown thing and supposedly going to be the key element to the reduction of healthcare costs. And a huge number of states have punted at setting them up.
It's all very much vaporware until next year.
Re: "Obamacare’s most popular provisions are its least well known" - Bread Crumbs - 03-23-2013
Obongocare is a budget breaking house of cards in the wind.
Every time the marxists get some power they try socialist engineering with disastrous results.
Re: "Obamacare’s most popular provisions are its least well known" - Wild eep - 03-23-2013
Bread Crumbs wrote:
Obongocare is a budget breaking house of cards in the wind.
Every time the marxists get some power they try socialist engineering with disastrous results.
I revel in your bitterness. :wiggle:
Re: "Obamacare’s most popular provisions are its least well known" - samintx - 03-23-2013
cbelt3 wrote:
Exactly how are healthcare exchanges considered a 'popular element' ? They are a highly unknown thing and supposedly going to be the key element to the reduction of healthcare costs. And a huge number of states have punted at setting them up.
It's all very much vaporware until next year.
The exchanges are great for the first 3 years till the states have to start paying. Then the Sh*&^ hits the fan. Look at those goodies....taxpayers will be paying for all the wonderful benefits or they lead to single payers and the govt controlling us even more.
Re: "Obamacare’s most popular provisions are its least well known" - Speedy - 03-23-2013
Singlepayer. I can't wait! Healthcare like that in the rest of the highly developed world. Good and cheap.
Re: "Obamacare’s most popular provisions are its least well known" - Ted King - 03-23-2013
samintx wrote:
The exchanges are great for the first 3 years till the states have to start paying.
Are you talking about the exchanges in the ACA or the part of the ACA that involves inducements to states to expand Medicaid? I'm pretty sure that I read that the exchange operations themselves are going to paid for by fees paid by insurers. Do you have information that the state governments will be on the hook for paying for some significant chunk of the exchanges?
Re: "Obamacare’s most popular provisions are its least well known" - Ted King - 03-23-2013
cbelt3 wrote:
Exactly how are healthcare exchanges considered a 'popular element' ?
See the long orange-brown line in the top graph of the OP. Poll - 80%
Re: "Obamacare’s most popular provisions are its least well known" - mattkime - 03-24-2013
everyone will have medical care! we're all going to hell!