President Obama’s health care overhaul is getting less popular as time goes on.
After a slight uptick in June and July, the law’s popularity sank to 43% in a Kaiser Family Foundation poll this month, while 45% said they opposed it. Just last month, 50% of Americans favored the law in the same poll.
Only 39% of those polled said the law would make the country better off, down from 43% in July; 37% said it would make the country worse off, up from 35%.
The reason for the increased wrath: Republicans. Some 77% of them now oppose the law, up from 69% the past two months. Among Democrats, 68% favor the law, down from 73% in July.
The law’s eroding popularity comes just weeks before some provisions take effect on Sept. 23 — or, more often, upon insurance companies’ new plan years, usually Jan. 1. Those provisions include some that Obama and Democrats in Congress intended as popular, such as letting otherwise uninsured children stay on their parents’ insurance plans until they turn 26.
It’s been a while since the president had time to tout the law, what with the economy still in the tank and unemployment hovering near 10%. But you can expect him on the health care hustings around Sept. 23.
(Source: USA Today)
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This abomination, with zero Republican support in the House, is without doubt the worst piece of legislation foisted upon the American public since the Smoot–Hawley Tariff of 1930. This is the change 53% of the electorate wanted. The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.