Summary

Republican increasingly support for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

According to a new Gallup poll, 19% of Republicans approve of Obamacare, the highest approval number since the poll began in 2012.

Additionally, 32% of Republicans believe the government has a responsibility to ensure health care coverage for all Americans, a significant jump from the 22% who said the same in 2020.

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      15 days ago

      I forget which Behind the Bastards episode first put me on to this but man, there’s such a long history of people in the US killing or trying to kill good projects because it helps the “wrong” people

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      14 days ago

      tbf i would expect a progressive party to vote against a policy that 81% of their constituents didn’t agree with

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    They’ve had their one shot to try and make “something better” but they’ve failed miserably. I doubt going into the next 4 years, that they’ve got anything better either.

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      They’re going to spend the next four years breaking things and stuffing money into any place that will hold it. They don’t know how to build jack shit.

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        What’s ironic is that stable governments protect rich people’s money. Unstable governments let rich people get killed by mobs and then seize their assets

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      They had multiple shots. They could easily have bill that replaces or worth something else, but they instead opted to remove it without alternative.

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      They have concepts of a plan. The real plan will be out in 2 weeks, give or take. If you ask about it, the timer starts over.

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    Some people believe “Trump fixed it,” because he said that.

    (He didn’t. He actually made it harder to enroll.)

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    These people don’t know what’s good for them. Listen to terrible sources. And so we all suffer. I wish I could separate from them.

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        so they know what they’re supposed to hate.

        a poll asking about ‘affordable care act’ only, with no mention of ‘obamacare’ will get significantly different responses than one that does reference president obama.

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          That really shows just how childish the Republican base is. Liberals aren’t lying when they say these people only listen to buzzwords.

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          It should forever be referenced as “The ACA (Obamacare)”. Never let anyone forget what they did.

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      14 days ago

      This^

      A lot of polling found support for the ACA jumped when it was referred to by its actual name and not OBamacare

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    Thanks Obama, for real though I’m on board with repeal and replace, cause this aint shit.

    But I’m not aboard with “Repeal and bring back pre-existing conditions!”, but that seems to be all the Greedy Old Pricks have got up their sleeves.

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      People forget what the originally Obamacare was supposed to be. Republicans are the ones who watered it down. If they replace it, it will be with nothing.

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    It was originally a Republican plan and they lack object permanence so I’m not surprised