03-23-2013, 04:50 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonk...ell-known/
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.
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.