This was not supposed to happen. When Obamacare was rammed down the throats of the American people, proponents assured us that we didn’t know what was good for us, and moreover, that once we found out what really is in the new law, our adamant opposition would reverse in the polls. In fact, the opposite seems to be true. Indeed, support for repealing Obamacare has risen in the latest Rasmussen finds to 58% from 54% of those polled (likely voters). Meanwhile, opposition to repeal has fallen. From the story:
Three weeks after Congress passed its new national health care plan, support for repeal of the measure has risen four points to 58%. That includes 50% of U.S. voters who strongly favor repeal. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters nationwide finds 38% still oppose repeal, including 32% who strongly oppose it. For the previous two weeks following passage of the controversial plan, 54% of voters have favored repeal and 42% have opposed it.
The American people did not object to the passage of this law because they didn’t know what was in it, but because they did. And the more they learn, the less they like.
Repeal. Reform. Replace. Defund.
April 12th, 2010 | 1:33 pm
I’m glad you use the term “Obamacare” in the title so everyone knows not to take you seriously.
April 12th, 2010 | 4:43 pm
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April 12th, 2010 | 5:10 pm
“When Obamacare was rammed down the throats of the American people …”
Ohh Wesley, there you go shilling for the Republicans again. You’re right: people didn’t know what was in this bill, and they still don’t, thanks to you and your GOP friends misrepresenting it to them.
April 12th, 2010 | 7:02 pm
Anon & HistoryWriter – We knew what was in the Bill, and the MORE we hear about it, the MORE we don’t like it. I know you’re hoping that Americans have a short attention span, and I’m sure you might even part of the Educational Establishment which has contributed to that short attention span… But, I’ll remember, at least through November, and I’ll make sure my friends do…
You should remember NOT to treat the American people like a bunch of morons – It’s not for nothing our first motto was, “Don’t tread on me!”
April 13th, 2010 | 6:27 am
Michael Sweeney wrote: “We knew what was in the bill….” and “You should remember NOT to treat the American people like a bunch of morons – It’s not for nothing our first motto was, “Don’t tread on me!”
“We, kemosabe?” as the old Lone Ranger joke goes. Who’s “We”? You, Wesley and Sarah Palin? Wesley complained that the bill is too long and complicated for anybody to understand. Shouldn’t the Repubs get their stories straight?
BTW, the average IQ in America is, by definition, 100. Not exactly rocket scientist level. Check out the bell curve concept.
Wesley J. Smith Reply:
April 13th, 2010 at 9:55 am
Wesley said that last summer. We still don’t know the details, much of which will be quietly put in by bureaucrats in 100,000 pages of regulations. But we do know the substantive outlines–of a federal takeover of standards of care, of cost controls that will lead to rationing, of huge new bureaucracies, of taxes up the wazoo, of unconstitutional mandates to purchase a private product. The people know these things now, and they are not amused.
April 13th, 2010 | 11:04 am
Most people I’ve spoken with were very unhappy when they found out that a centerpiece of the bill was forcing people to buy insurance. Many think that the bill is a giveaway to the insurance companies.
And, given that Congress may have inadvertently terminated their own healthcare program four years before the exchange to replace it starts up, it’s pretty clear that the folks who passed the bill had large gaps in their understanding of what is in it.
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