Poll Finds That Most Voters Would Rather Change Than Repeal Obamacare

From Huffington Post.



While somehow killing ACA (and then what?) seems to be an article of faith among the Right/GOP/TP, it certainly isn't amongst Americans in general as recent polling indicates (see below). This, despite killing ACA being an integral part of the GOP's mid-term election "mandate," which, I guess, really isn't much of one.

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A Rasmussen poll released Monday signaled growing support for Congress improving the Affordable Care Act rather than repealing the law entirely. According to the survey, 52 percent of respondents said they believe Congress and the White House should "go through the law piece by piece to improve it." Thirty percent support repealing the law entirely, and 13 percent want to keep the law as is. Other recent surveys have found most respondents in favor of changing the legislation rather than scrapping it all together. In November, a Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found that 29 percent of respondents support full repeal, 17 percent scaling the law back, 20 percent moving forward with the law as is and 22 percent expanding the law. In September, a Washington Post/ABC News poll found that 57 percent of voters support the law or want to let it go forward to see how it works, versus 39 percent who wanted to repeal. And an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll conducted in October found that 55 percent of voters would support a congressional candidate who wanted to give Obamacare a chance versus 43 percent who would back a candidate who wanted to repeal and start over with a new law.

To be sure, the law is not currently perceived well, at least in whole:

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Overall approval of the law remains low. In November, a Gallup survey found that 37 percent of respondents approve of Obamacare, versus 56 percent who disapprove.

However, I attribute that large part to:

• GOP/right wing disinformation, misinformation and general negative propaganda. Often, when polled in more detail (on specific features), it is fairly popular in aggregate.


• Many see it as something to improve, as the above polling clearly indicates.

It seems the Dems are winning the policy arguments, the GOP the propaganda arguments. I'd prefer our country be run on good policy rather than propaganda.