‘Obamacare’ Poll Finds 42% of Americans Unaware It’s Law

Apr 30, 2013 4:03pm

A new poll finds that many Americans are confused about the health care overhaul legislation commonly called “Obamacare.”

The Kaiser Family Foundation released results of a non-partisan study today finding more than 40 percent did not even know the law was in place.

“Four in ten Americans (42%) are unaware that the ACA [Affordable Care Act] is still the law of the land,” the report says, “including 12 percent who believe the law has been repealed by Congress, 7 percent who believe it has been overturned by the Supreme Court and 23 percent who say they don’t know enough to say what the status of the law is.”

The survey showed public opinion on Obamacare is at its second-lowest rating in the past two years.

Less than half – 40 35 percent – of adults viewed the ACA favorably, whereas 35 40 percent said they viewed it unfavorably. Another 24 percent said they did not know or refused to answer.

Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, one of the original crafters of the bill, earlier this month predicted a chaotic implementation process for the Affordable Care Act. “I just see a huge train wreck coming down,” Baucus, D-Mont., said.

The president today defended his health care plan against that claim.

“I think that any time you’re implementing something big, there is going to be people who are nervous and anxious about is it going to get done until it’s actually done,” he told reporters.

He went on to say those who would have trouble with implementation were the roughly 48 million Americans who are uninsured to begin with, a minority of the population.

“For the 85 to 90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, this thing’s already happened, and their only impact is that their insurance is stronger, better, more secure than it was before,” President Obama said. “Full stop. That’s it. Now they don’t have to worry about anything else.”

Recognizing one confusing aspect of the law, the Department of Health and Human Services today made applying to enter the insurance market through the Affordable Care Act a little easier.

HHS  today released new applications for individuals and adults looking to get health insurance. Officials cut the forms down from 21 pages to seven pages for a family and three pages for an individual.

The applications ask nothing about medical history, beyond whether the applicant or a family member is pregnant and whether they have a condition that “causes limitations in activities … like bathing, dressing [and] daily chores.”

Instead, they resemble tax forms, inquiring about income, Social Security numbers and employment history. They also ask for contact information and race-ethnicity.

The application for families says members of the family who do not require health coverage do not have to list immigration status or Social Security numbers.

President Obama touted the new forms as one of the “refinements” his administration has made with respect to the Affordable Care Act in recent months.

“The challenge is that, you know, setting up a market-based system, basically an online marketplace where you can go on and sign up and figure out what kind of insurance you can afford and figuring out how to get the subsidies, that’s still a big complicated piece of business,” Obama told reporters at a news briefing the morning the new application was released.

“But having said all that, we’ve got a great team in place. We are pushing very hard to make sure that we’re hitting all the deadlines and the benchmarks.”

Three years after the president signed the bill into law, some Republicans continue to oppose it, holding steadfast in their promises to repeal it, while others have given up the fight.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.,  introduced a bill last week that would have preserved some parts of Obamacare, but it died as other members of his party refused to support it.

“I want to repeal Obamacare completely,” Rep. Martha Roby, R-Ala., tweeted Monday night, “and I think efforts to exempt Congress are hypocrisy at its worst,” she added, referring to a Politico story suggesting that members of Congress might find a way to exclude themselves from the president’s health care overhaul, which they later rebutted.

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Obamacare, just another step toward the government running your life. Obama, you’re a horrible ‘President’.

Posted by: RJ | April 30, 2013, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm

At least 2/3 didn’t want it before the Dems pushed it through for Obama’s signature. Long since it’s passage and well before it’s fully implemented, the majority of Americans still don’t like it and don’t want it. They know what’s coming and they have every right to be upset. Sadly, there were not upset enough as they gave Obama another four years. The pain of Obamacare is only just beginning.

Posted by: electpatriots | April 30, 2013, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm

But I’ll bet those 42% know a lot about Kim Kardashian and Honey Boo Boo. Idiots.

Posted by: Bob | April 30, 2013, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm

Seems like every other week they find something new in this “signature Obama legislation” that is a really bad idea or is detrimental to healthcare in this country.

Posted by: Gunner__59 | April 30, 2013, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm

“For the 85 to 90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, this thing’s already happened, and their only impact is that their insurance is stronger, better, more secure than it was before,” President Obama said. “Full stop. That’s it. Now they don’t have to worry about anything else.” — This statement confuses me?!? Not sure how Obamacare makes my insurance stronger? My employer still gets to pick the plan and tell me how much I have to contribute. If they pick a sucky plan I am stuck with it.

Posted by: NoSpin1600 | April 30, 2013, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm

@BOB — I bet you are right. I also bet those 42% are the same people that vote for someone based on party and not qualifications or where the candidate stands on the issues.

Posted by: NoSpin1600 | April 30, 2013, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm

Where are the exchanges?

Posted by: Paulie | April 30, 2013, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm

Of course people don’t know what’s in the law!!!! That’s by Pelosi’s own design!!!! Duh! It’s still not even complete, much less the improperly placed or missing letter “S”s. It was a steam pile of legislation that is going to cost the nation more than $2 Trillion dollars and raise insurance rates on everyone while at the same time forcing citizens against their own will to purchase it as a government dictate upon the people. The socialist-democrat party even had to spend hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to buy votes from their own party to tax the nation an addition $2+ trillion or face violation of federal law, and even though that’s Ok for illegals to do, not so for legal citizens.

Posted by: TexBork_2013 | April 30, 2013, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm

@BOB — I bet you are right. I also bet those 42% are the same people that vote for someone based on party and not qualifications or where the candidate stands on the issues.

Posted by: NoSpin1600 | April 30, 2013, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm

Or race. See Jesse Jackson Jr and Alvin Greene.

Posted by: Ted | April 30, 2013, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm

My insurance cost has gone up. Yet there are NO changes to make it any stronger if I were to get ill. My deductibles are still the same, if I want to include a family member they still have to wait a period of time to preclude any pre-existing conditions (here’s a big secret, Obamacare doesn’t protect those with pre-existing conditions, actually it only says you can’t be denied. It doesn’t say that the insurance companies can’t put years of wait time on that person or charge them more). The Obamacare system does nothing but pour more money into a bad system.

Posted by: christina | April 30, 2013, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm

christina, Mine’s gone up 20% this year alone. I remember when Hussein was accusing insurance companies of taking too much profits, so to “fix it” he’s going to require everyone purchase it. That will teach the insurance companies a lesson! Hussein, Pe-lo, and the rest of the socialists made medical insurance a requirement of citizenship! That’s the biggest pool of guaranteed government dictated profits for any industry. The socialist-democrats handsomely rewarded they pretended they hated! It was a rope-a-dope of stupid Americans and unfortunately it seems it was a target rich environment. My guess is because many whom support the socialist-democrat party went to public schools and are happy to live their lives as government dependent socialists.

Posted by: TexBork_2013 | April 30, 2013, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm

0bummerkare = social.ism

Posted by: huh? | April 30, 2013, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm

As a member of the millions of Americans without health insurance, I for one and glad Obamacare is coming. My employer offers health insurance, but it is completely useless. No prescription plan. No co-pays. $5,000 out-of-pocket deductible. None of my co-worker’s take the insurance. Few are lucky enough to have a working spouse that has family insurance. The rest of us come to work sick or go without pay, since our employer does not provide sick leave. Thank you President Obama for pushing this bill through. Thank you members of congress who voted for this bill. Millions of Americans will live longer now that a doctor will be accessible to them when they begin to feel sick, not will they are too sick and nothing can be done. We look forward to one day joining the rest of the world by having a government sponsored National Healthcare System.

Posted by: Mike | April 30, 2013, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm

As a member of the millions of Americans without health insurance, I for one am glad Obamacare is coming. My employer offers health insurance, but it is completely useless. No prescription plan. No co-pays. $5,000 out-of-pocket deductible. None of my co-worker’s take the insurance. Few are lucky enough to have a working spouse that has family insurance. The rest of us come to work sick or go without pay, since our employer does not provide sick leave. Thank you President Obama for pushing this bill through. Thank you members of congress who voted for this bill. Millions of Americans will live longer now that a doctor will be accessible to them when they begin to feel sick, not when they are too sick and nothing can be done. We look forward to one day joining the rest of the world by having a government sponsored National Healthcare System.

Posted by: Mike | April 30, 2013, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm

So there’s 5% of the American people out of the 47% that know it’s law?
Wow, I’m surprised that many know.

Posted by: Noz | April 30, 2013, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm

I do think that a nation as strong as the U.S. should be able to provide some type of affordable healthcare to its citizens while not increasing the profits of the insurance companies and increasing cost on individuals who already have insurance. However having a plan that was voted in strictly by party lines is not the answer. Members of the Democratic party admitted they did not read the bill. If you don’t read something how do you know what’s in it?

Posted by: NoSpin1600 | April 30, 2013, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm

@MIKE — Do you know what is / will be included in the Obamacare plan you purchase?

Posted by: NoSpin1600 | April 30, 2013, 5:04 pm 5:04 pm

Obamacare won’t be in full effect until 2016.

The republicans had no plan, they would have let the country go bankrupt before they took on the health care industry.

Here’s a hint for republicans:

If you want to be successful in the next elections, get a message. Stop the negativity and “do nothingness” People equate you republicans the same way they view only bad news on television, they get tired of it.

Mitt lost because he had no message or vision. If your learning curve is not flat you need to learn from his experience.

Posted by: tmferretti | April 30, 2013, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

Mine hasn’t gone up… and I have pretty good coverage…. so to coin a popular republican idea: That is just tough $@&% for you! My company provides well for it’s employees… don’t like it? Then jump companies and help the “free market” do what it is supposed to do!!! Soooo many people afraid of change. It is a wonder we got to the moon in the 60′s. By the way – I’d vote for Obama a THIRD time. Peace out – and I’ll bet in 5 years most of you people STILL will not be feeling the effects of this law.

Posted by: TroyS | April 30, 2013, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm

TroyS, Think Hussein will go for a third?

Posted by: TexBork_2013 | April 30, 2013, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm

TroyS – No Hillary will win her first!

Posted by: Mike | April 30, 2013, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm

tmferretti, Republicans had a plan. 3 of them. They were never allowed to be scheduled. Can’t debate it if it is not allowed to go to the floor.

Posted by: TexBork_2013 | April 30, 2013, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm

Obama is now paying a PR firm $3.1 million to sell us on Obamacare, our tax dollars at work for the President as usual…what do they not understand about we do not want this government health care plan…What happen to sequester Mr. President?

Posted by: Freedom | April 30, 2013, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm

Freedom, Can’t be that he’s doing that. We have this sequester thing. He can’t spend $3.1 million brainwashing the stupid with taxpayer paid purchased propaganda into thinking HusseinCare is a good idea.

Posted by: TexBork_2013 | April 30, 2013, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm

TEX

What plans? They were invited numerous times to participate, they refused. They put their hopes in the tea party, funded by the health insurance industry, and ran around talking about death committees and how doctors were refusing to treat patients. A total defensive strategy for the health industry.

If their plans were so great, why didn’t they push those ideas in the media to get them in front of the American people?

Their ideas that leaked consisted of exclusively vouchers so the heath care companies could continue to over charge the public and deny health insurance because of pre-existing conditions.

Nothing says Obamacare can’t be amended, where are the republican amendments? They know anything they propose will be rejected by the American people.

Posted by: tmferretti | April 30, 2013, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm

we do not want this government health care plan
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These poor critics don’t even seem to know that Obamacare isn’t a government health care plan…..it expands coverage using PRIVATE insurance.
If you want to see real government healthcare repeal Obamacare.

Posted by: paul | April 30, 2013, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm

FREEDOM

What health care plan do you want? One run by the rip-off health insurance industry I bet.

The health care system we had was bankrupting the country, whats the solution?

Posted by: tmferretti | April 30, 2013, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

Nothing says Obamacare can’t be amended, where are the republican amendments? They know anything they propose will be rejected by the American people.

Posted by: tmferretti | April 30, 2013, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
How do you amend 1500 pages??? You just throw the train wreck in the trash and start over.

Posted by: Billy Bob | April 30, 2013, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm

How about we throw the whole train wreck in the trash and go to a public option instead.

Posted by: paul | April 30, 2013, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm

How about we throw the whole train wreck in the trash and go to a public option instead.

Posted by: paul | April 30, 2013, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm
—How about we throw Obamacare in the trash and we go to legislation that actually reduces the cost of healthcare???

Posted by: Billy Bob | April 30, 2013, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm

You don’t have such a plan

Posted by: paul | April 30, 2013, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm

Tex all TALKING POINTS and lies provided by the administration and the MSM as usual. You’re a good poster boy for propaganda works USA!

Posted by: Joe | April 30, 2013, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm

As a Republican, I am infuriated by Republicans in Congress consistently bending to public / media pressure to “do something.” Almost without exception, government attempts to fix problems make them worse. Look at college tuition, for example. The more government money put into tuition assistance programs, the more the cost of education rises. The same thing has happened with the health care system and will happen further with further implementation of the so-called “Affordable” Care Act.

Honestly, it’s simple to understand. Suppose that your customers are paying $1000 each for your service. The government comes along and offers people $500 to help offset that cost. The rational response is to raise the price by $500 — your customers have already shown that they believe $1000 of their money is a fair price. This is what has happened to the price of college, and this is what will happen to the price of medicine.

I would love to see a true alternative come out from Republican leadership, instead of “whatever the Democrats want, just slightly less of it.” Here’s what I would do:

1 – end all deductions for health insurance; all premiums paid would come from post-tax dollars, and premiums paid by employers would count as imputed income. I’d also remove the ability to deduct excessive medical expenses from your income tax.

2 – phase out Medicare and Medicaid over a period of, say, 5 years.

3 – work with individual states to limit malpractice to cases of gross or willful negligence — accidents happen, and people make mistakes.

4 – work to eliminate all laws that require hospitals / ERs to treat patients regardless of the ability to pay. (Individual hospitals / doctors are welcome to continue that practice at their own discretion)

5 – work to break the AMA’s stranglehold on the licensing of doctors (and the ANA’s on the licensing of nurses). Allow unaccredited doctors to practice medicine, provided that the patient signs a waiver.

6 – reduce the length of human trials needed for new medicines; allow patients to use unapproved medicines with a signed waiver.

I could go on and on. You’ll note that each of these is a relaxation of the government involvement currently in place. Each will also have a downward effect on the cost of obtaining quality medical care. Ideally, it would be fantastic to be able to get rid of health insurance entirely, or at least to limit it to cases that are truly serious; office visits shouldn’t require an insurance card. But, that’s beyond the purview of the government, in my opinion. Still, people would think twice about paying for these all-inclusive insurance plans if they had use after-tax money to do it.

Posted by: J. | April 30, 2013, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm

tmferretti the health care system was the BEST in the world…BO just wants to drain the system and make us more dependent on govt. Get your head out of the kool aid, and start to see what’s really happening.

Posted by: Joe | April 30, 2013, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm

BILLY BOB

You amend it just like you do any other bill. You introduce the amendment, get support and go for it.

Most replicans say (if not another con) they like the no pre-existing conditions clause, and the fact that people who are not paying now have to pay something.

So introduce other changes that you think would improve the plan. Sitting around sniping is immature

The republicans are like those people you see around the office. Always slamming everyone else’s ideas but never having any of their own.

And, just like in those offices the republicans are ignored by the American people.

Posted by: tmferretti | April 30, 2013, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm

– phase out Medicare and Medicaid over a period of, say, 5 years.
——————————–

Only a moron or a scam artist would seriously suggest that they can save the public money by replacing Medicare with private alternatives which are simply way more expensive.

Posted by: paul | April 30, 2013, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm

JOE

Ya , right, thats why weren’t ranked 17th in the world and have a hifgher infant mortality rate than China. By the way it’s also the most expensive with much fewer people covered..

Ask the Canadians if they want to trade. I think not, except for a few Canadians that want a boob job and think they should got o the head of the line.

Posted by: tmferretti | April 30, 2013, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm

Obamacare is a disaster, or one can substitute any of the following words to now in the Thesaurus that also refer to disaster: Libya, or Boston, or gun control, or sequester, or Chicago, or Bloomberg, need I go on? What is really funny is that it will, as he himself says, be rememberd as his defining achievement.

Posted by: Justin Sane | April 30, 2013, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm

By 2016 Obama is going to the most hated president in history.

Posted by: Rich | April 30, 2013, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm

as long as the GOP/TP make money telling lies to the public, Obamacare will never be understood – long, long after the people it helps continue getting help. they will “love their healthcare” but “hate Obamacare” in the same way they still shriek “get your government hands off my Medicare.” if lies were millstones, all the GOP/TP would be long drowned by now.

Posted by: bajacalla | April 30, 2013, 6:11 pm 6:11 pm

No wonder Obama was elected. Our voters are totally out of it. Too busy watching reality TV.

Posted by: bob | April 30, 2013, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm

The media really keeps the electorate informed. No wonder a failure like Obama was reelected.

Posted by: bob | April 30, 2013, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

The media really keeps the electorate informed.

Posted by: bob | April 30, 2013, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

Wouldn’t it be fun to see how many of those completely uniformed are Republican voters.

Posted by: Dave | April 30, 2013, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm

I heard the same people who pushed Obamacare through now want to exempt themselves.

Posted by: newcountryman | April 30, 2013, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm

now you get the same insurance as an indigent bum or an illegal alien. good luck finding a real doctor…one with a degree. death panels around the corner.

Posted by: catman | April 30, 2013, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm

now you get the same insurance as an indigent bum or an illegal alien.

Posted by: catman | April 30, 2013, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm

Wrong. You can purchase any kind of insurance you want.

Posted by: Dave | April 30, 2013, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm

you can purchase any kind of insurance you want…wrong …no exchanges and the cost has risen over 60 plus percent and rising over 4 years. if you are not a degreed professional your employer is going to dump you on obamacare. thats happening as we speak and 10 times faster than the CBO projected. on top of that try to find a real doc who will accept obamacare…..try planned parenthood.

Posted by: catman | April 30, 2013, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm

‘death panels’ have been around a long time already…..they’re called insurance companies.

Posted by: paul | April 30, 2013, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm

Thank you “Obama Care”, now if I get a serious illness, my insurance provider CAN NOT drop me if they think I am costing them too much!
Thank you “Obama Care”, now if I want to change jobs and they have a different insurance provider they can NO LONGER say oops sorry you have a pre-existing medical condition and we WON’T insure you!
Thank you “Obama Care”, now people who CAN AFFORD insurance have to get insurance so they don’t make my PREMIUMS GO UP because they don’t want to get it, they get sick, go to the emergency room and skipping out on paying their bill making my PREMIUMS GO UUUUP!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Peace to ALL!

Posted by: kcurryz | April 30, 2013, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm

About the same percentage of people that believe he can do nothing wrong and will follow him no matter what!

Posted by: Airdoc | April 30, 2013, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm

“I think that any time you’re implementing something big, there is going to be people who are nervous and anxious about is it going to get done until it’s actually done,”

-The President should look at the cost projections of Social Security and Medicare when they were initially proposed and consider their current solvency and our mounting debt before offering any kind of assurances. If people aren’t nervous about the ACA, then they’re not paying attention…

Posted by: Howard Patterson | April 30, 2013, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm

Obamacare will raise current healthcare premiums by as much as 80%….more companies are cutting back workers hours to avoid obamacare ‘tax’…The doctors I know are considering retirement….

Nobody benefits from this plan except insurance companies…and illegal aliens.

Posted by: Zoyd Wheeler | April 30, 2013, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm

Written by lobbyists and staffers, passed unread in the middle of the night – what could go wrong?

Posted by: Dave-0 | April 30, 2013, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm

“Less than half – 40 percent – of adults viewed the ACA favorably, whereas 35 percent said they viewed it unfavorably.”

You have that backwards. It’s on page 3 of the survey. Great reporting.

Posted by: brandaman54 | April 30, 2013, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm

I would love to see a follow on question: do you vote in the Preezy elections and if so, who did you vote for? I will guarantee that 95+% of these MORONS voted for Barry (twice).

Congrats MSM.

Posted by: Barry bin Inhalin | April 30, 2013, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm

kcurryz….no one can be forced to pay….its a tax the IRS cant collect. the takers will figure this out before 2014 and they still wont pay. how stupid can one be ….this is merely a way to allow the slackers in the front door rather than the back door in exchange for votes.they still wont pay.

Posted by: catman | April 30, 2013, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm

The low information voters that got Obama re-elected will have a rude awakening when the reality of Healthcare costs, immigration costs and increased taxes hit home. Because he is a lame duck, and purposely passed obamacare to start in 2014, he got re-elected before the crap hit the fan, now it’s too late.

Eventually, our debt load will impact all of us, bringing in 20 million illegals for votes will not contribute squat to the taxes needed to pay it down. We are eventually going to see Obamacare fail, which was the Democrats goal, then single payer Government run healthcare will be passed, we will trade insurance companies for the Government telling your Doctor how to treat you.

Posted by: Mike | April 30, 2013, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm

It’s beginning to become clear just how Obama got reelected.

Posted by: newcountryman | April 30, 2013, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm

and the remaining 58% don’t give a crap

Posted by: true believer | April 30, 2013, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm

The LibMarxists dumbing down of America is coming to fruition.

Posted by: 2ndprotectsall | April 30, 2013, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm

The uneducated idiots who voted for him solely because he was black or because Obama said he would give them stuff. These are the idiots who have determine the future of this nation,.

Posted by: alan | April 30, 2013, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm

Let me guess – 98% of the 42% are Drudge followers…

Posted by: Cletus | April 30, 2013, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm

WE THE SHEEPLE let it happen….

Posted by: Dan C | April 30, 2013, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm

That would be the low informed voters of Obama. Idiots ! They shouldn’t be allowed to vote if they don’t have a clue as to what’s going on, and who a candidate is. They need to stop funding for Obamacare now, before it destroys this country. Then impeach Obama !

Posted by: what the heck | April 30, 2013, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm

“For the 85 to 90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, this thing’s already happened, and their only impact is that their insurance is stronger, better, more secure than it was before,” President Obama said. “Full stop. That’s it. Now they don’t have to worry about anything else.”

THE ONLY IMPACT??
What about the thousands of workers who have been cut to less than 30 hours a week and now have no insurance??? I know of a few hundred in my hometown of less than 3000 that this has happened to.
…smh

Posted by: Ellen Johnson | April 30, 2013, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm

This needs to be repeated over and ovef!!! ” Obamacare doesn’t protect those with pre-existing conditions, actually it only says you can’t be denied. It doesn’t say that the insurance companies can’t put years of wait time on that person or charge them more). The Obamacare system does nothing but pour more money into a bad system.”

Posted by: mariee | April 30, 2013, 7:32 pm 7:32 pm

Simply disgusting. Low information voters will be the death of the United States. Now you see why the Founders limited voting to land holders, the only people with a true dog in the fight.

Posted by: Marbran | April 30, 2013, 7:32 pm 7:32 pm

Not sure if this is intentional, but the poll is misreported in the story. The unfavorable view is 40% and the favorable is 35%. The article inverts it saying that the only 35% view it unfavorably and 40% view it favorably. Where is the editor on this?

Posted by: tomormatt | April 30, 2013, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm

The Hard Core of Chronic Know-Nothings went from single digits to this in a little over 40 years. The democrats have free reign until the colapse.

Posted by: mec | April 30, 2013, 7:35 pm 7:35 pm

Along with Pelosi, we won’t know what’s in the law until a loved one desperately needs a medical procedure.

Posted by: Jennifer | April 30, 2013, 7:35 pm 7:35 pm

Not asking about medical history on the health insurance application? Just goes to show that this is nothing more than a massive datamining operation by the government to be stored in the massive NSA data centers. Everything you do and think is going on record. All your medical records are going to be kept and tracked with everything else about you.

Posted by: Unreal | April 30, 2013, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm

Not sure if this is intentional, but the poll is misreported in the story. The unfavorable view is 40% and the favorable is 35%. The article inverts it saying that the only 35% view it unfavorably and 40% view it favorably. Where is the editor on this?

Posted by: tomormatt | April 30, 2013, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm

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You expect the truth from the ALL BARRACK CHANNEL?

Posted by: Jambu Shambu (@jambu_Shambu) | April 30, 2013, 7:38 pm 7:38 pm

3 years ago I was paying $350 a month for insurance with a $2000 family deductible. Today I am paying $450 with a $5000 deductible. Go to hell Obama and Pelosi too.

Posted by: Jambu Shambu (@jambu_Shambu) | April 30, 2013, 7:39 pm 7:39 pm

The author clearly didn’t read the study close enough. It reports that 40% hold an UNFAVORABLE view of the law, with 35% holding a FAVORABLE view. Not the reverse as the author reported.

It should also be mentioned that in the report it is found that 53% want the law changed or repealed. Something notable yet missing from the article.

Posted by: Author incorrect | April 30, 2013, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm

The uninformed electorate is probably the reason Obama was able to get himself a second term, eh?

Posted by: Jasonn | April 30, 2013, 7:42 pm 7:42 pm

If my insurance (I am self pay..not government) goes up another dime…I am done! I will just pay the penalty. It is breaking my family now and we have to eat and pay our bills…not be insurance poor. What ever daffy ducks wrote this law ought to be fired. We pay big premiums and can’t even get in to see our family physician we have had for over 20 years because he is too busy with patients that have come out of the woodwork. Now we are the ones forced to go to emergency rooms and or Patient First and I have had insurance for over 35 years. Our country is so messed up from one end to the other. This Administration has aided bombers, fed illegals, ripped our military shreds and on and on. It’s really bad…our economy? That’s a joke…what economy? We only have a government economy. For the first time in my life…I am ashamed of my country! God Help Us!

Posted by: suzy000 | April 30, 2013, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm

42% are low information voters.
47% are entitlement mavens.

This country is finished.

Posted by: Mike Jefferson | April 30, 2013, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm

That explains Obama’s re-election.

Posted by: chrisdj614 | April 30, 2013, 7:46 pm 7:46 pm

more than 42% don’t have any idea what obama has done to our country and its laws .

Posted by: paprtowl | April 30, 2013, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm

The same 47% Romney was talking about. They pay no taxes and live off the rest of us in one form or the other. Who is suprised.

Posted by: steve | April 30, 2013, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm

I don’t get the reason for this whole ‘exchange’ thing. Several years ago, my son went on a single website, found numerous companies offering all sorts of differing plans with premiums as low as $59/mo and as high as in the $100′s. There were high deductibles, low deductibles, copays, no copays, co-insurance, no co-insurance, 80/20 and 75/25 deals, with and without Rx coverage, etc. They also had options for dental and optical. The website had filters built in making it easy to pick out perferred features and compare different policies. I guess the only difference is that it was private, not run by the govt. I’d bet big money that website is much better than anything the govt comes up with. The govt doesn’t need to ‘set up’ a marketplace. It’s already out there, and it didn’t cost me or any other tax payer one red cent to set it up!

Posted by: roddysue | April 30, 2013, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm

How big a correlation do you think there is between Romney’s 47% that don’t pay taxes and these 42 percent that have no clue what is going on?

Posted by: Poor_Richard | April 30, 2013, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm

The president is lying!

Posted by: bschuer | April 30, 2013, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm

The sad part is Obama and the ignorant actually beleaves the things he says “For the 85 to 90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance… and their only impact is that their insurance is stronger, better, more secure than it was before” what a lie my insurance has gone up by more than 40% my out of pocket has increased by more than $3000 a year and my benefits have gone down. and for the hundreds of my friends that i know in the same boat as me call this an out and out lie.

Posted by: MG | April 30, 2013, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm

This shows that in all actuality, when it really matters President Obama can be the same master communicator that his predecessor was – it takes a lot to really know what he is saying and why – especially when the messages change so often. As is coming out in this article, the politicians we voted into office to protect our rights and represent us put “Obamacare” in place without their constituencies knowing what was being done. Is our Political System working well or is it breaking down? You figure it out. Obama has the ears, and I’ve come to believe he’s leading the new “Mickey Mouse Club” in D.C. They’re good in looks & popularity, but as far as getting things done, I’ll stick with Walt Disney.

It is time to Furlough “Obamacare” until it is explained and understood, and to do the same to everyone on Capitol Hill (Furloughed / unpaid) – They only work 2 days a week until they prove to the American people they WILL do their jobs and get things done for us. Right now we are getting NO return on our investment. They must also learn that before they pass anything into WORKING law they make sure the people understand it AND know the date it is being done. Congress didn’t read this Bill and hasn’t been keeping track of bills for years, otherwise America would not be in this deep financial hole. Obamacare just shows how sloppy Washington truly is, It wasn’t thought through, it wasn’t read through, it was never made clear and it will never be the right choice.

I think Obama got his wires crossed and mixed this with illegal aliens workings – that is the true “Obamacare”, while he got his sleeptimes mixed up on this one, he thought it was “Dream” but it’s gonna end up more like a “nightmare” Act across the nation.

Posted by: ParadudeUSA | April 30, 2013, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm

Well, we are talkign about Obama’s base: The Stupid Vote.

Posted by: billsbowl | April 30, 2013, 7:57 pm 7:57 pm

Probably Obama voters. The uninformed dominate the country. That is why Obama is president.

Posted by: Cam | April 30, 2013, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm

People who have not participated in private enterprise think that an online marketplace means that a government mandated coverage is not socialistic! Medical insurance is based on setting rates in a competitive environment based on statistical risks. People who call 911 when McDonald’s runs out of chicken nuggets will continue to go to the emergency room rather than wait for a doctor’s appointment! If something is provided “free” is will not be valued!

Posted by: Common _ Sense | April 30, 2013, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm

I am glad I am 71 years old and I don’t have to deal with this communist crap as much as younger people do. They deserve it because they voted the communist into office. So just learn to live with it and hope you will grow up some day and kick these people out of office.

Posted by: Texasbil | April 30, 2013, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm

In the last 2 years, my Bluecross policy went from $271 / month with a $1500 deductible to $501 / month with a $3500 deductible and this covers just me! Some of my older doctors said they have had enough and are leaving the profession. Socialism never takes into account human nature.

Posted by: newjerseybt | April 30, 2013, 8:03 pm 8:03 pm

Obama: “I think that any time you’re implementing something big, there is going to be people who are nervous and anxious about is it going to get done until it’s actually done,”

Like what experience does Obama have in this unqualified statement?

Guess what, Folks? Obamacare is a tax on just being alive and there never has been such a thing in the history of the USA… You are alive, therefore you must pay…

Posted by: Mark of the Wild West... | April 30, 2013, 8:04 pm 8:04 pm

And 99% of the politicians who passed it never read it…

Posted by: Rationalist | April 30, 2013, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm

Let me pose a question…
I live in West Virginia, I drive a car, in order to drive my car, I HAVE TO HAVE CAR INSURANCE.
Why, because I MIGHT get into a car wreck.
I am a human being, I AM GOING TO GET SICK, why in the world should I not have to buy health care insurance? I’m GOING TO GET SICK!!! If I don’t have insurance to help me pay my bill, WHO WILL? I’ll tell you WHO WILL, the people who HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE? Peace to ALL!

Posted by: kcurryz | April 30, 2013, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

Obamacare is already taking effect in the hospital near me – it’s a disaster and getting worse by the day. This ENTIRE program has to be repealed.
Thanks, Obama voters, for putting us into this mess. And while you’re at it, thanks for letting Obama continue to run record deficits, record unemployment, record bank failures, record foreclosures, record number of US troop deaths in Afghanistan, record spending, record number of people on foodstamps and public assistance, record trade deficits, Mexican border unguarded, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Pigford, and all while he racks up a record number of golf games. Worst president ever!

Posted by: UncleDan | April 30, 2013, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

They will understand it loud and clear when they are penalized for it on their taxes next year.

Posted by: Concerned Individual | April 30, 2013, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm

And today the Democrat Party tweeted that 56 million people now have FREE healthcare.

Posted by: UncleDan | April 30, 2013, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm

There are not enough facepalms in the whole of eternity to do justice to this…

Posted by: Gayle | April 30, 2013, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm

Obamacare is the insurance industry’s free market adjustment in order to expand coverage.
The dolts who think Obamacare is socialism don’t realize they’re out of free market alternatives according to the insurance industry themselves.

Posted by: bizzness | April 30, 2013, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm

Just wait until the liberty stealing mandate portion of this monstrosity is implemented in January 2014. The clueless 42% have no idea what’s in store for them when they file their income taxes next year. The IRS will be implementing the individual mandate on January 1, 2014. If the clueless don’t already have health insurance, they can say adios to that huge refund check of the past. Unless, of course, they are followers of the “religion of peace” – they are exempt from the Obamadoesn’tcare mandate.

Posted by: Susan in Texas | April 30, 2013, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm

Let me guess – 98% of the 42% are Drudge followers…

Posted by: Cletus | April 30, 2013, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm

*****

Posted by: Janna | April 30, 2013, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm

“For the 85 to 90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, this thing’s already happened, and their only impact is that their insurance is stronger, better, more secure than it was before,” President Obama said.

If it weren’t such a total load of BS it would be hilarious. Tell that to those who have already lost their insurance thanks to Obama’s lies! Remember, if you like your insurance you can keep it, said the biggest liar living in the white house.

ABC, you are nothing but propaganda for the liar!

Posted by: ROFLMAO | April 30, 2013, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm

CALL.

YOUR.

SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES.

REPEAL THIS MONSTROSITY!!!!

Posted by: Gayle | April 30, 2013, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm

What about all the new taxes. ABC won’t report on that!

Posted by: ROFLMAO | April 30, 2013, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm

The GOP critics who think people don’t have a responsibility to carry health insurance must have taken a liking to freeloading apparently

Posted by: bizzness | April 30, 2013, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm

Let me guess – 98% of the 42% are Drudge followers…

Posted by: Cletus | April 30, 2013, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm

Wasn’t their research showing 75% of Drudge followers are living off of their parents?

Posted by: Randy | April 30, 2013, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm

Maybe the 42 percent are those who know the difference between a statute and law, the latter being the US Constitution as THE LAW OF THE LAND which includes all its limits on Congress, and the 9th and 10th amendments reserving to the PEOPLE or the states those powers not delegated – powers that Congress has usurped for 100 years in its haste to enrich its members and destroy liberty.

Posted by: Jim Greaves | April 30, 2013, 8:22 pm 8:22 pm

Those are the 42% who not thought it was free but they didn’t need to do anyhting but just show up at a doctor’s office on an as needed basis…where they would find the cornacopia of free x-rays, exams, medication and smiles.

Posted by: IraqVet | April 30, 2013, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm

OBAMACARE = SOCIALISM
WAKE THE HELL UP!!!! JUST WAIT UNTIL 1/1/14 WHEN ALL THE FEES KICK IN AND ALL THE TAXES KICK IN FOR EVERYONE. TO YOU 42 PERCENTERS, HOW DO YOU EVEN TIE YOUR SHOES IN THE MORNING? GEESH!!!

Posted by: MEL | April 30, 2013, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm

Posted by: MEL | April 30, 2013, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm

HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION = SOCIALISM

Posted by: Doug | April 30, 2013, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm

And they’re allowed to vote!!

Posted by: joecool | April 30, 2013, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm

Nobody is suggesting anything like socialism, where the government actually owns all the hospitals and employs all the doctors.

Posted by: doug | April 30, 2013, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm

Those who don’t know will soon enough, when they have to wait 4-months to see a doctor!

Posted by: arty | April 30, 2013, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm

And every one of them voted for that clown in the White House.

Posted by: WilliamPenn | April 30, 2013, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm

The mandate is fair.
If you’re healthy and don’t have health insurance you’re a freeloader. period.

Posted by: nate | April 30, 2013, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm

So Romney was right about those 47% who pay no taxes because if you pay taxes, you sure as heck know that this law was passed because taxes are higher because of this nonesense law.

Posted by: Doug | April 30, 2013, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm

How can the mandate be fair when I have to pay higher taxes for it even if I will not be using the service? Answer that Nate.

Posted by: Doug | April 30, 2013, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

If you’re healthy and don’t have health insurance you’re a freeloader. period.

Posted by: nate | April 30, 2013, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm

The chances of decreased health and increased risk of having had an accident increase over time.

Posted by: Doug | April 30, 2013, 8:36 pm 8:36 pm

The same Neanderthals who think global warming is real are the same ones thinking Obamacare is a great plan. It’s what happens when you smoke too much dope!!

Posted by: arty | April 30, 2013, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm

Even the Democrats thinks Obamacare is a “Trainwreck”!! Many will lose their insurance-companies will pay the fines, small companies will lay off people so they won’t have to pay their fines because being small they cannot pay the insurance. Medical care will be so bad that we will think we are in a thrid world country!! Waiting months for tests and treatment and the older you are the longer you wait! I lived where they had socialized medicene and I seen it first hand. Doctors will retire and I know one that has already said if “Obamacare” goes through he will retire along with MANY others. Berko (finance guy) said the pay offs and coruption will be out of hand. Stupid ideal and bad for the country!!!!

Posted by: Marsha | April 30, 2013, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm

It appears the forest is full of Gumps.

Posted by: Bruce Gregory | April 30, 2013, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm

Call this thing what it is. There is nothing affordable about it. It has very little to do with health care. It has very much to do with redistribution of wealth and paying off unions and other groups that bought the Obama line and lies and re-elected him. These fools never learn. They always pay dearly for their free lunches.

Posted by: MORTON | April 30, 2013, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm

Why do Democrats hate America so much?

Posted by: arty | April 30, 2013, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm

Because you’re going to try and tap the system after you get sick and not pay in ahead of time. it’s like trying to buy fire insurance when your house is already on fire.. Ask the insurance companies….they’ll explain it to you.

Posted by: nate | April 30, 2013, 8:40 pm 8:40 pm

My wife’s MS medication went up by $950 per month as of Jan. 1. You read that right… $950 per month. We just got word that our work insurance premiums will be going up by 45% on Jult 1, when we begin our new coverage year. Our GP now has a sign on his reception desk saying that they no longer see Medicare patients. I had check-up this week, and it was obvious that he is turning to nurse practitioners for a lot of his duties. And we just got a booklet in the mail that shows all the drugs that are going from Tier 1 coverage to Tier 2 (much higher co-pay.) And a number of drugs I was familiar with will simply not be covered anymore. Of course, most of us will be dumped into exchanges by our employers, anyway, because it will save them money. So the good news, it’s a lot worse already but not as bad as it’s going to get. The best healthcare on the planet is in the process of dying.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2013, 8:40 pm 8:40 pm

Posted by: Marsha | April 30, 2013, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm

It’s best to make major decisions based on rumors and anecdotal stories.

Posted by: Doug | April 30, 2013, 8:41 pm 8:41 pm

even if I will not be using the service?

You will be using the service eventually. You won’t live forever in perfect health. trust me.

Posted by: nate | April 30, 2013, 8:41 pm 8:41 pm

Don’t worry, they won’t be to confused when they start getting notices from the IRS telling them how much tax they owe and if they don’t pay up by a certain date they will be faced with interest charges and more fines. That will make them unconfused real quick.

Posted by: Joe Schmoe | April 30, 2013, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm

The high school drop-out rate is highest among those who say they vote democrat.

Posted by: arty | April 30, 2013, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm

Posted by: joecool | April 30, 2013, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm :”Nobody is suggesting anything like socialism, where the government actually owns all the hospitals and employs all the doctors.”

Joe, people might think you a bit more cool if you understood the difference between socialism and communism. Wouldn’t hurt you to read up on the subject.

Posted by: MORTON | April 30, 2013, 8:43 pm 8:43 pm

42% don’t know Obamacare is the law. Well there are most of Obama’s supporters. Oh are they in for a surprise!

Posted by: Kenny V | April 30, 2013, 8:43 pm 8:43 pm

I see Obama has his operatives (plants) working full time at this site. Save your breath. We know all your tricks. The government is the biggest bunch of ####. Everything they touch turns to diarrhea. Obama never had a real job in the private sector. Never went to medical school. A choom-room pro. But… he knows better than YOU what is in your best interest and your family regarding health. This has ZERO to do with our health. He couldn’t care if our families died tomorrow (unless he could make political use of a headline like Boston)
This is ALL about CONTROL and nothing more! Now that this is law, he finally has us all by the shorthairs.

Posted by: newjerseybt | April 30, 2013, 8:43 pm 8:43 pm

The same 42% who never paid an income tax in their lives I will wager.

Posted by: JoeThePimpernel | April 30, 2013, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm

42% that sounds about right, the 42% of unemployed americans know that Obamacare is law because its the reason they probably were not hired/given lower hours.

Posted by: Chris | April 30, 2013, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm

Why is proof required of a recent rectal exam when submitting the new healthcare enrollment forms?

Posted by: arty | April 30, 2013, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm

I’ve never had health insurance and have never been denied health care by a physician or hospital ever. I have probably saved $100,000 over the years and paid what I could and some times have been on a payment plan, but shamefully politicians have misinformed the public and have lied that you need health insurance to get health care, and that is false, and it’s also against the law. There are some who are more worried about their credit than their health. I’d rather go to a hospital and get a heart transplant and owe them $1 millions – they will never get it, and I am ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Sal Monolo | April 30, 2013, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm

The worst thing that ever happened to this country was OBAMA being born.

Posted by: jackson | April 30, 2013, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm

Obama Drones.

Low information voters hoodwinked by a Chicago politician.

So what, taxes go up, jobs are lost. Obama is cool.

Posted by: Bossman | April 30, 2013, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm

nate | April 30, 2013, 8:40 pm 8:40 pm obviously was not listening when Obama guranteed all of us we could keep our insurance and our doctor if we wanted to. Or did I misunderstand what Obama said? The American Jobs Destruction Plan (called Obamacare by some) didn’t work out exactly like it was sold to us, did it? Fools! Why did you believe this snake oil salesman?

Posted by: MORTON | April 30, 2013, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm

there has got be some democratic congress folks who are loyal flag waving loving America to the core who are tired of this crap and will stand up and stop it no matter if it agrees with GOP ,,, most if not all of Americans do not want this socialist bill.

Posted by: renie | April 30, 2013, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm

The GOP problem is they have no alternative at all. Thet just want to leave millions of Americans without health insurance. That’s not going to win very many elections, get ready for that.

Posted by: nate | April 30, 2013, 8:51 pm 8:51 pm

“Wasn’t their research showing 75% of Drudge followers are living off of their parents?”

Posted by: Whatever1 | April 30, 2013, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm

“their” meaning the same research company quoted above.

Posted by: Jim | April 30, 2013, 8:51 pm 8:51 pm

The GOP problem is they have no alternative at all. Thet just want to leave millions of Americans without health insurance. That’s not going to win very many elections, get ready for that.

Posted by: nate | April 30, 2013, 8:51 pm 8:51 pm

And they don’t care that people were suddenly cut off of cancer coverage because they’d ‘reached their limit’. Nor did they care that parents with very sick children were denied coverage due to ‘pre-existing conditions’.

Posted by: Ralph | April 30, 2013, 8:53 pm 8:53 pm

The elderly, the chronically ill, and the handicapped will pay the highest price for this “free” health insurance for Obama worshipers. The death panel (aka Independent Payment Advisory Board) will make sure of that. A 15-member board of unelected bureaucrats will determine if their illness is worth the expense the government has to pay for life-saving treatments or medications. This Obamadoesn’tcare rationing board has all the appearances of the federal government’s “final solution”.

Posted by: Susan in Texas | April 30, 2013, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm

Jim—Really? What research company was quoted in Randy’s post? Yep….that’s what I thought! I just love it when stupid people try to make fun of who they believe are stupid people by saying stupid things. It’s hilarious!

Posted by: Simplemindssurroundus | April 30, 2013, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm

What research company was quoted in Randy’s post?

Posted by: Simplemindssurroundus | April 30, 2013, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm

You are aware this article is about the results of a research company poll, right? That would be ‘their’ research.

Posted by: Jim | April 30, 2013, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

I know Obamacare is law. I just don’t care and will do my best not to comply with Obama’s fascist laws, even if that means having to go to prison. Liberty is everything to some, even if that liberty is taken away by a fascist State.

Posted by: Ron | April 30, 2013, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

“Wasn’t their research showing 75% of Drudge followers are living off of their parents?”

Posted by: Whatever1 | April 30, 2013, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm

You are aware this article is about the results of a research company poll, right? That would be ‘their’ research.

Seems clear enough to me. Perhaps you’re picking your nose in vain.

Posted by: Jim | April 30, 2013, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm

ObamaKare is designed to fail. Then Present Øbama can take over the whole thing. This is a slow motion train wreck. I just don’t understand how so many people could have been so willingly fooled by this Marxist.

Posted by: Jon Carry | April 30, 2013, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm

That explains the 2012 election.

Posted by: jetty | April 30, 2013, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm

HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION = MARXISM!

Posted by: Doug | April 30, 2013, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm

Glad I’m not President or Congress right now.

Posted by: Dave | April 30, 2013, 9:10 pm 9:10 pm

Those of you who are all giddy about the prospect of getting health insurance because of this law should remember that someone else is paying for it. Others who are already taking care of themselves are now required to take care of YOU, too. I don’t want to pay for your healthcare, your children, your food, your housing, or anything else. I simply want to take care of myself. I do not support your disgraceful socialist presidunce or his attempt to impoverish me for your benefit.

Posted by: Paul Verlaine | April 30, 2013, 9:14 pm 9:14 pm

Simplistic fools. When will you all realize that government is the first enemy? After that comes the propaganda of the media. Ours beds have been made. It’s time for a pillow fight!

Posted by: Donna | April 30, 2013, 9:16 pm 9:16 pm

Those of you who are all giddy about the prospect of getting health insurance because of this law should remember that someone else is paying for it

Posted by: Paul Verlaine | April 30, 2013, 9:14 pm 9:14 pm

That’s the same thing that happens with people who get sick while on private insurance. Other people pay for their health care costs.

Posted by: Roger | April 30, 2013, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm

Considering that most Americans’ desire for awareness ends at who the remaining contestants are on American Idol or Dancing With the Stars, I’m hardly surprised.

Posted by: GregoTX | April 30, 2013, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm

Proper

Posted by: Beenthere | April 30, 2013, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm

If anyone wonders why we’re stuck with the worst examples of leadership in US history, here is your answer.
It turns out after all that ignorance is not bliss.

Posted by: Mark | April 30, 2013, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm

Democrats think they are entitled to free everything.

Posted by: Puddin | April 30, 2013, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm

Funny when it was Reagan who tripled the national debt and Bush II who doubled the national debt.

Posted by: Roger | April 30, 2013, 9:25 pm 9:25 pm

If you’re healthy and don’t have health insurance you’re definitely a total freeloader. No doubt about that.

Posted by: nate | April 30, 2013, 9:26 pm 9:26 pm

“For the 85 to 90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, this thing’s already happened, and their only impact is that their insurance is stronger, better, more secure than it was before,” President Obama said.

No it is only twice as expensive….

Posted by: Rick | April 30, 2013, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm

It is time to repeal this Obamacare nightmare.

Posted by: Jack Levitt | April 30, 2013, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm

If you’re healthy and don’t have health insurance you’re definitely a total freeloader. No doubt about that.

Posted by: nate | April 30, 2013, 9:26 pm 9:26 pm

That’s the same thing that happens with people who get sick while on private insurance. Healthy people paying premiums pay for their health care costs.

Posted by: Roger | April 30, 2013, 9:30 pm 9:30 pm

“Funny when it was Reagan who tripled the national debt and Bush II who doubled the national debt.”

Yes, and Obama has added more debt than all presidents combined. However, I do agree Bush pushed for too much spending as well

Posted by: Rick | April 30, 2013, 9:32 pm 9:32 pm

Yes, and Obama has added more debt than all presidents combined.

Posted by: Rick | April 30, 2013, 9:32 pm 9:32 pm

That’s exactly what both Reagan and Bush II did.

However they weren’t handed the largest economic collapse since the Great Depression, an annual deficit of over a trillion dollars and two major unfinished wars.

Posted by: Roger | April 30, 2013, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm

In about 40 states some 50% of existing health insurance products will not pass muster under the PPACA actuarial value standard, nor will they meet the enhanced essential health benefits the Act requires. Non-Grandfathered groups and individuals who use these plans today will have them taken away on 1/1/14.

Millions of people. There health plan will be taken away from them against their will. Because their existing plans are simply not “good enough” or they miss the narrow AV windows the FEd requires.

So much for “If you like the plan you have, you can keep it.”

Check it out.

WR29

Posted by: WellRead29 | April 30, 2013, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm

Tell your friends the truth because corporate media will not.

Posted by: President Obama | April 30, 2013, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm

Corporate media is owned by large corporations and the super rich. They take care of their own.

Posted by: Roger | April 30, 2013, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm

Har de har har, I knew this would be the case.

What’s more, when the brothers with their pants dragging the ground are confronted by IRS agents and told that they owe 2 grand for “health care” they will be pissed, for they now have not a clue.

The ensuing havoc caused by people all of a sudden being liable for something of which they had no clue will likely doom Obamacare..millions are not going to pay, and NOBODY can make them pay.

Posted by: Bob Oscar | April 30, 2013, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm

Am I looking at the poll wrong or did ABC get it wrong? It appears they got the numbers backwards. More people DON’T like the law than do!

Posted by: HUH???? | April 30, 2013, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm

Rasmussen 4/29/2013 ——”Forty-three percent (43%) of Likely U.S. Voters view the health care law favorably, while 49% have an unfavorable opinion of it.”

Posted by: Bob | April 30, 2013, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm

Using the link in ABC’s story…..35% favorable; 40 unfavorable. No wonder there are so many uninformed voters.

Posted by: HUH???? | April 30, 2013, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm

I have a question: Since liberals have to constantly couch terms and relabel words to change their meaning, will they change the name of the “affordable” care act when it is found to be anything but affordable? How about some intellectual honesty for once?

Posted by: Dean | April 30, 2013, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm

The major networks have done their job well. Focus on important issues like gay marriage and legalizing pot.

Posted by: j Stuart | April 30, 2013, 9:54 pm 9:54 pm

Stupid, uninformed VOTERS – we all get what YOU are too dumb to think through. When it’s free, you geet woat you paid for!

Posted by: LADY CON | April 30, 2013, 9:54 pm 9:54 pm

So this is discouraging. I feel like others are voting me into poverty.

Posted by: A/S | April 30, 2013, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm

reporter [re-PORT-er]: A writer, investigator, or presenter of news stories; a person who reports; a person employed to gather and report news, as for a newspaper, wire service, or television station. A person or agency that reports the Democrat party talking points, and desperately tries to keep the American people from knowing how screwed up this country has become.

Posted by: LADY CON | April 30, 2013, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm

— 4/15-20/13—–Kaiser Foundation tracking poll.
…..”As you may know, a health reform bill was signed into law in 2010. Given what you know about the health reform law, do you have a generally favorable or generally unfavorable opinion of it?”…..

35% Favorable———–40% Unfavorable
—–The two polling periods prior to this ALSO had a higher percent as unfavorable. So when there is an aberrant reversal for one polling period, the MSM runs it as a story. Bias?

Posted by: Bob | April 30, 2013, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm

Democrats: “I want to be a government slave submissive to bureaucrats. Other people will pay for my medical care! If I have to wait six months to see a doctor for an illness that will kill me in three months, well, I’ll never put two and two together. Free stuff!”

Posted by: Cara C | April 30, 2013, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm

“You Lie”
Anybody want to bet that Obama and the Democrats take an extended vacay around Jan 1, 2014.

Posted by: Trudge1 | April 30, 2013, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm

The really sick people are Obama voters. They are all guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors against America. Obama voters caused this catastrophe and every one of them should have to PAY PAY PAY for this obscenity. Obama voters are the cause of America’s destruction. Guilty in the court of HUMAN RIGHTS!

Posted by: Pouncekitty | April 30, 2013, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm

Obamacare is supposed to help the millions of uninsured get insurance. Who are these millions of uninsured? Could it be the 11 million plus illegal aliens in our country? If that is the case, that’s one reason health insurance premiums have been higher than they need to be. Is this also why they now want to provide a pathway to citizenship for all the illegals? The American people have been screwed. All these problems are caused by the government.

Posted by: k-bear | April 30, 2013, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm

America, land of the free (kind of), home of the stupid. I blame news outlets like ABC in part, way to go, get those liberals in charge ABC!

Posted by: sailordude | April 30, 2013, 10:07 pm 10:07 pm

ObamaSlavery in progress…

Posted by: Hmm | April 30, 2013, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm

get those liberals in charge ABC!

Posted by: sailordude | April 30, 2013, 10:07 pm 10:07 pm

Corporate media is owned by large corporations and the super rich. Don’t kid yourself, they serve their own ends.

Posted by: Dave | April 30, 2013, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm

It’s not surprising that 42% of the people don’t know that Obamacare is the law of the land. I suspect a much higher percentage of people in this country couldn’t even name the Vice President if their life depended on it.

Posted by: The Bruce | April 30, 2013, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm

Poor reporting. Intentional?

The study clearly says 40% have an unfavorable view, 35% favorable, and the rest undecided.

If you don’t like the facts you just turn them around to your favor.

Here’s the corrected copy:
“40 percent of adults viewed the ACA unfavorably, whereas 35 percent said they viewed it favorably. Another 24 percent said they did not know or refused to answer.”

Soon many will be trying to escape the train wreck.

Posted by: D Guest | April 30, 2013, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm

‘Obamacare’ Poll Finds 42% of Americans Unaware It’s Law..

FINALLY!

Somebody explained the results of the last election.

THANK YOU, ABC!

Posted by: Amused | April 30, 2013, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm

That still better than the 92% of politicians who voted for the law when they had NO CLUE what it contained.
In a couple of years the Democrats will be praying [I know just a figure of speech, democrats only pray to Obama], for the train wreck outcome as being the best result possible.

Posted by: Justin Sane | April 30, 2013, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm

How many people that almost everyone even with healthcare maybe subject to an 18.00 a week service charge a TAX. IF you do not take certain classes or subject to an education thing via the insurance companies. If you don’t comply you are assessed the fee weekly for the next year. All part of Obamacare…. Most people will end up paying the fee weekly Bet you didn’t know that did you…. Found out today from medical insurance and the hospital

Posted by: coast2co | April 30, 2013, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm

My kids are covered under my insurance, and they weren’t before. I also got a refund from the insurance company. What are you people whining about?

Posted by: Dirk | April 30, 2013, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm

It’s not surprising that 42% of the people don’t know that Obamacare is the law of the land. I suspect a much higher percentage of people in this country couldn’t even name the Vice President if their life depended on it.

Posted by: The Bruce | April 30, 2013, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm
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And the funny part is.. they are the lucky ones.

Posted by: dbase1986 | April 30, 2013, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm

I haven’t decided who is worse. The government or the lying, liberal, left wing media that has encourged and supported this never should have been elected Muslim to begin with. Do they really think that we all only use half our brain? And, just because the polls say it’s true, does it also make it fact? I think not. One only has to go to “blogville” to read and see the disgust that most people with any shred of common sense know what was going to happen. Which begs the question. Just how many people that sit on the supreme court have any common sense? Or, just because it was argued a certain way does that make you an educated fool, Chief Justice Roberts.

Posted by: Donna | April 30, 2013, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm

Single payer = being at the mercy of the government deciding what care you get = slavery.

Insurance companies needed reforming, but bad as they are, they could not prevent you from getting a treatment you need (pre-Obamacare). You could sue or form a boycott, complain to your Rep., etc. But, ‘you can’t sue City Hall’. The govt has no one looking over its shoulder, you can’t sue it, and they can jail a doctor who doesn’t do what they say. Add to that no competition, and they’ve got total control over your life.

And guess who they’ll hire to run their system – the former employees of the eviiiilll insurance companies.

Even now- pre-single-payer- the IPAB, the rationing panel, will decide what treatment you get. Their decisions have the force of law in 5 years. Their job is to cut Medicare spending – which means cutting care. Obamacare makes it almost impossible for Congress to override their decisions (requires a supermajority), and even if they do, Congress is required to find a different way to make the same dollar-value cuts, with a supermajority vote. Way to avoid responsibility, Dems in Congress!

Posted by: D Guest | April 30, 2013, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm

D GUEST – “Single payer = being at the mercy of the government deciding what care you get = slavery” Actually slavery has been defined as one reaping the rewards of another’s labor. That does sound a lot like what the left is pushing.

Posted by: MyTake | April 30, 2013, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm

The 42% don’t care, because they won’t be paying.

Posted by: Rico | April 30, 2013, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm

Just goes to show you what a “great job” the News Media has done to inform the nation. Viewers at Fox News know it’s law. They had people from BOTH sides of the issue discuss it and they reported how it passed in the middle of the night, etc. BSNBC probably never mentioned it.

Posted by: Kingcruiser | April 30, 2013, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm

Low information democratic voters. Wow.. own it liberals.

Posted by: Bob | April 30, 2013, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm

Let me guess – 98% of the 42% are Drudge followers…

Posted by: Cletus | April 30, 2013, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm

Drudge is a news aggregator that links to sources like the New York Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and the White House website. Try again.

Posted by: bc | April 30, 2013, 10:58 pm 10:58 pm

“We look forward to one day joining the rest of the world by having a government sponsored National Healthcare System.”

Yes, you too can be left trying to drink water from flower vases. (NHS in England) and wait months to treat gangrene (Canada) Tell ya what. Give people the freedom to opt out of of it. What? You won’t? Why not? Oh right- because you want others to pay your way. You want to be a leech on everyone else and consume more than you produce. Well, sorry, you can’t. The money is gone, and I would rather be shot in my driveway than contribute one dime to your upkeep. But Hey, me being killed is fine with you isn’t it? After all, socialists always end up mass murdering their neighbors for refusing to become their slaves. Always.

Posted by: Weisshaupt | April 30, 2013, 11:02 pm 11:02 pm

Gee, maybe if ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN had been just a wee bit more fair in their portrayal of the objections that were raised by the emerging TEA Party and critical of the stinking malfeasance by Congressional democrats who didn’t even bother to read the bill before voting for it – maybe we wouldn’t be having this discussion?

Posted by: Mike M | April 30, 2013, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm

‘Obamacare’ Poll Finds 42% of Americans Unaware It’s Law..

FINALLY!

Somebody explained the results of the last election.

THANK YOU, ABC!

Posted by: Amused | April 30, 2013, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm

Google “How Obama Got Elected… Interviews With Obama Voters” and “Howard Stern Exposes Obama Supporters 2012 “. Nuff said.

Posted by: sj | April 30, 2013, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm

Exactly Rico, it’s ~10% less of Romney’s 47% which only proves that just because you don’t pay taxes doesn’t mean you cannot read a newspaper.

Posted by: Mike M | April 30, 2013, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm

So, ABC continues to shill for Obama by hiding the perverse nature of this monstrosity. Just today I had a discussion with a good friend about Obamacare – a conversation she initiated. She is appalled by what she is finding out about the law and apoplectic that it was shoved down our throats. She kept saying “why didn’t they warn us about this; I don’t want this”. ABC and all your fellow JournOlists – you betrayed your professional obligations to vet what was being proposed. As my friend is now sadly realizing, Obamacare will cause our insurance rates to go up drastically, care will be massively rationed, we will be fighting government black holes trying to figure out how to access care, doctors are leaving the profession early. It is a disaster. We are screwed. And ABC you led the pack with your infomercial for the legislation and nary a critical look at the bill. From reading the comments on this site, there are still people who are absolutely clueless about what is about to happen to them and their families. ABC = epic fail along with all the other media outlets who were so sappy in love with Obama that they failed do their most fundamental duty and inform the American public.

Posted by: RCJHgirl | April 30, 2013, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm

Boy is 42% of the population going to get a wake up call.

Posted by: Flyoverman | April 30, 2013, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm

the seditious, parasitic, Kenyan Kommie Klown, right?

Posted by: juandos | April 30, 2013, 11:07 pm 11:07 pm

The country isn’t divided. It’s just a tiny group of idiots like you who say dumb stuff like this. Moderate, every day Americans know you’re completely whacko.

Posted by: Don | April 30, 2013, 11:24 pm 11:24 pm

Are really the Mexican and United States governments working mutually against illegal businesses?
What we can see it is that criminals are getting into the political power receiving huge amounts of bribes, illegal management businesses is more relevant than the economy and people of both countries, it seems that basic economic principles are forgotten in the underground of the legal businesses.
Using media, tax money, killing civilians, slavery children among others is only the peak of the iceberg. Bribes have increased given by the BRIC countries as well as supporting all kind of illegalities to increase the wealthiest of the Forbes richest men in the world using Free Trade Agreements when there is no scientific evidence that the accounting principles are even the same in all these countries wishing to increase their commerce, so financial, economic, engineering, accounting frauds are common in this global economy affecting millions of people in extreme poverty while the politicians are getting more and more money on their side all the time, they are using high school consultant coming from Indian origin through IT monopolies.
Common people has to understand the economic mistakes done, protecting extremist groups like the Opus Dei, the white supremacists (slavery), and other mafias around the world. They are creating a fantasy world that gives magical solutions in business and government; nobody is impressible to solve scientifically all this situation and they are killed using the force of the Agencies, China and India with electronic weapons worldwide. Only the mafia people are the one defining our future while the BRIC countries are taken advantage, the dark side and the use of the force are better than scientific knowledge for these politicians.
It is important to legalize what it has to be legalized to be more focus in the real economy, and real problems, instead of being working in the unknown illegal businesses and fantasy. It is a waste of government time to continue in this unproductive path, and damaging people using the New Order technology at the same time.

Posted by: Adalberto Cervantes Rodriguez | April 30, 2013, 11:25 pm 11:25 pm

The country isn’t divided. It’s just a tiny group of idiots like you who say dumb stuff like this. Moderate, every day Americans know you’re completely whacko.

Posted by: Don | April 30, 2013, 11:24 pm 11:24 pm

Shilling for Obama 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for years on end is the definition of “completely wacko.” Nobody aspires to live like you.

Posted by: bc | April 30, 2013, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm

Well, all I know is I was promised healthcare in 2008 and I still don’t have it. All the talk back then was about the 44 million uninsured Americans. Now it’s 64 million, and still no signs of improving any time soon, if ever. It’s kind of hard to support any argument in favor of an Obamacare that doesn’t provide care.

Posted by: Jennifer | April 30, 2013, 11:36 pm 11:36 pm

The Affordable Care Act … isn’t.

Posted by: dave | April 30, 2013, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm

Why any law would include those who are not here legally, cannot present a SS card, is not required to produce immigration status is ludicrous. Why should the American people be providing for those who are not citizens of this country. This is why I will NEVER, NEVER trust a Democrat again. I will NEVER vote for a Democrat again, EVER!
There is something mighty wrong with a country who is willing to over burden the hard working citizens of this country with the duty to provide for ANYONE let alone those who do not belong here.

Posted by: pokey5735 | April 30, 2013, 11:39 pm 11:39 pm

The country isn’t divided.

Posted by: Don | April 30, 2013, 11:24 pm 11:24 pm

War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.

Posted by: INGSOC | April 30, 2013, 11:41 pm 11:41 pm

Wasn’t their research showing 75% of Drudge followers are living off of their parents?

Posted by: Randy | April 30, 2013, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm

You’re living off taxpayers, hypocrite.

Posted by: sj | April 30, 2013, 11:43 pm 11:43 pm

“[The applications] resemble tax forms, inquiring about income, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS and employment history. They also ask for contact information and race-ethnicity.”

“The application for families says members of the family WHO DO NOT REQUIRE HEALTH COVERAGE…” (I thought the law requires EVERY citizen to have coverage) “…do not have to list IMMIGRATION STATUS…” (meaning illegal aliens can receive coverage) “…or SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS…” (again, meaning illegal aliens can receive coverage).

(EMPHASIS added)

Posted by: David Zuckerman | April 30, 2013, 11:43 pm 11:43 pm

I’m glad you don’t put up with extremist crap from nutcases Don. It soils the country. Good work.

Posted by: Thelma | April 30, 2013, 11:41 pm 11:41 pm

I like agreeing with myself. It’s not like anyone with a working brain will.

Posted by: Don | April 30, 2013, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

This is incorrect:

” Less than half – 40 percent – of adults viewed the ACA favorably, whereas 35 percent said they viewed it unfavorably”

It should read:
” Only about 1/3 – 35 percent – of adults viewed the ACA favorably, whereas 40 percent said they viewed it unfavorably”

Please check the data in your own link before publishing.

Posted by: FRZU | May 1, 2013, 12:13 am 12:13 am

You think the Middle East has a lot of oil and you think the oceans have a lot of water and you think the night sky has a lot of stars but they all pale in comparison to how much stupid America has. This stupid we have an abundance of will be the driving force that will take America to its doom if something isn’t done about it.

Posted by: STOPTOUCHINGTHATMABEL | May 1, 2013, 12:41 am 12:41 am

These people must be part of that huge chunk of Americans that don’t pay any taxes. What do they care? They don’t pay attention when someone says, “The government is preparing to dip into your pockets again.”

Posted by: GRRT | May 1, 2013, 12:45 am 12:45 am

The article doesn’t mention that 42% of “Americans” don’t speak English.

Posted by: JC | May 1, 2013, 12:53 am 12:53 am

i simply refuse to acknowledge that it’s law.

Posted by: nooo | May 1, 2013, 1:00 am 1:00 am

It doesn’t make sense that the people it was designed to help the most are going to have the hardest time signing up for it.

Posted by: pms | May 1, 2013, 1:15 am 1:15 am

They will realize it’s in place when the remainder of the taxes go into place shortly. That’s one part of Obamacare that I can assure you will actually be put into effect.

Posted by: Tom Sharp | May 1, 2013, 1:26 am 1:26 am

If the grudge report actually reported news, I suppose his idiot base would know about this. Instead he’s more interested in linking about his man crash on Tebow.

Posted by: someguy | May 1, 2013, 1:38 am 1:38 am

The ACA is…not affordable.

Posted by: john locke | May 1, 2013, 1:39 am 1:39 am

I just ordered another 150 rounds of 12 ga sabot slugs…for the “Shotgun Joe” Biden 11/87….cantilever mount rifled barrel…EOTech…Side Saddle…Tac Lite….listen to ‘old Joe….he’ll square you away….just aim that thing at the door and let ‘er rip!!!

Posted by: Conrad | May 1, 2013, 1:54 am 1:54 am

Work hard! Pay your taxes! Die! Next!

Idiot-Americans are getting EXACTLY what they voted for!

Posted by: waitforflash | May 1, 2013, 1:59 am 1:59 am

The same 42% that don’t know about Obamacare are the same people who were too lazy to educate themselves about the important issues facing this country prior to the 2012 election! Too many lazy, self-centered folks who either don’t vote, or vote strictly on a partisan basis,..without taking the time to study the issues and actually think for themselves!

This 42% will know about Obamacare when their premiums go up, their doctors quite their practices, and they can’t get appts. for medical care!

Posted by: Bart | May 1, 2013, 2:02 am 2:02 am

of course most of those 42% voted for obama…..gotta be careful of those laws you gotta pass to see whats in it…esp the ones that had to be bribed in…..but no way it gets over turned…if anyone dares try the media and dems would have 1600 penn avenue full of the dead and dying

Posted by: damien | May 1, 2013, 2:08 am 2:08 am

If the grudge report actually reported news, I suppose his idiot base would know about this. Instead he’s more interested in linking about his man crash on Tebow.

ya cause we know most of these 42% are repubs who read drudge and not the free phone crowd…..rrrrrrrrrrright but thanks for the “wtf” post of the night

Posted by: damien | May 1, 2013, 2:11 am 2:11 am

ya cause we know most of these 42% are repubs who read drudge and not the free phone crowd…..

Posted by: damien | May 1, 2013, 2:11 am 2:11 am

73% of the people surveyed were white.

Posted by: Rob | May 1, 2013, 2:22 am 2:22 am

Really, America… you’re stupid. – The rest of the world

Posted by: David Sedaris | May 1, 2013, 2:50 am 2:50 am

The timferretti’s are exactly what is wrong with this country. Delusional koolaid drinking morons.

Posted by: vikesguy | May 1, 2013, 2:54 am 2:54 am

Check out the Kaiser Foundation poll for yourself. It’s a poll that’s done WEEKLY! And for the last month every week a higher percent of people view ObamaCare as Unfavorable. Then for ONE week only, there is an aberrant reversal. NOW it becomes worthy of an ABC story. Pure Bias.

Posted by: Bob | May 1, 2013, 2:56 am 2:56 am

Liberal democrats, proudly destroying America with a smile. Either that or they are too dazed and confuzed to possess any sort of logic and reasoning, stumbling through life not knowing their heads from their asses. And these morons call conservatives stupid hicks? Priceless.

Posted by: vikesguy | May 1, 2013, 2:58 am 2:58 am

I like how schmucks like ‘someguy’ blame everything on drudge, who only provides links to news stories posted elsewhere on the web. These people are so clueless and stupid it’s embarrassing.

Posted by: vikesguy | May 1, 2013, 2:59 am 2:59 am

So Don thinks the country isn’t divided? How’s life under that rock, Don? Ignorance is bliss, right? You can be the posterchild for ignorant morons, okay?

Posted by: vikesguy | May 1, 2013, 3:01 am 3:01 am

Oh ABC news? Yer making Pravda blush. Well done, komrades!

Posted by: vikesguy | May 1, 2013, 3:05 am 3:05 am

Yeah , I knew it is in effect. My high health insurance is going so high I need to cut back on my coverage. My plan which is outrageous currently for me and my family at $ 11,423 is is going up to $17,623 a year effectively forcing me to cutback on coverage. Thanks Barry for making it so, so, so, so affordable.

Posted by: Mick | May 1, 2013, 3:11 am 3:11 am

So Don thinks the country isn’t divided? How’s life under that rock, Don? Ignorance is bliss, right? You can be the posterchild for ignorant morons, okay?

Posted by: vikesguy | May 1, 2013, 3:01 am 3:01 am

Most of America isn’t as ignorant as you are, as you display with your limited intelligence and your lack of coherent argument. Moderate, everyday Americans aren’t like you whacko right wingers. They don’t demonize the president, nor do they demonize Democrats. It’s people like you – a small disturbed minority – attempting to divide the country, and failing miserably.

Posted by: Rob | May 1, 2013, 3:12 am 3:12 am

For insured workers, the cost of buying health insurance for a family of four increased 4% to $15,745 in 2012, according to a survey conducted by Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust.

“These are strikingly low numbers to those of us who have been studying health costs for a long time,” said Drew Altman, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation. “A 4% increase in health premiums is good news.”

During the time Bush was in office, health insurance premiums went up over 13% every year to a total of over 130% in a decaded.

A 4% is very, very low.

Posted by: Gisha 6 | May 1, 2013, 3:18 am 3:18 am

We have over 20 years of legislation to undo.

Posted by: f0 | May 1, 2013, 3:44 am 3:44 am

Don’t know huh? It’s more like DON’T CARE!

Posted by: btruth | May 1, 2013, 3:54 am 3:54 am

GISHA….the Kaiser study was in 2012, before actual implementation of the Obamacare……in 2013 alone, and as confirmed by a number of sources, including the N.Y. Times, projected increases of insurance companies like Aetna and BX are well over 20% for one year.

More importantly….the Kaiser study…of only their system, specifically indicated the low run on medical care for two years prior to 2012…and more importantly, that employers attempting to limit increases in the “cost” turned to HIGHER DEDUCTIBLES for the insured……which would by necessity include an increase of cost to the insured, despite the illusory limit in monthly rate increase…..so spare us the Opropganda. Obamacare is a train wreck that WILL happen, only real question is when exactly.

Moreover, Kaiser has an easier time limiting its loses to ILLEGALS, and thus need for compensation by those of us who do pay or have insurance. Private insurers have much less control over 3rd party providers who pass costs on for the multitude of deadbeats.

Posted by: Tyrone | May 1, 2013, 3:59 am 3:59 am

This is what you get when morons elect empty chair useless radical commie..

Posted by: BPepik | May 1, 2013, 5:00 am 5:00 am

If all the edumacated people in Congress couldn’t understand it, how can we expect the average person to have half a clue.

Posted by: Brian | May 1, 2013, 5:03 am 5:03 am

This is proof that universal suffrage is a very bad idea!

Posted by: swampsniper | May 1, 2013, 5:05 am 5:05 am

Since I never had any intention of complying with the mandate, who cares?

Posted by: Traylor Trasch | May 1, 2013, 5:07 am 5:07 am

Moron Nancy Pelosi: “We have to first vote on it – so we can then read it..”

No wonder this country is going down the drain..

Posted by: BPepik | May 1, 2013, 5:15 am 5:15 am

I would love nothing better than for Obama to have to undergo the knife in a neighborhood where the BEST medicine around is a Messiahcare doctor. I’d love to see him get what he deserves. But it won’t happen. What’s good for you and me is not good for a Messiah. May he choke on his knee caps and toes.

Posted by: Bob Vedari | May 1, 2013, 5:16 am 5:16 am

Basically we’ll be getting another TSA in charge of our healthcare.

Posted by: Fisher1949 | May 1, 2013, 5:54 am 5:54 am

it is such GREAT coverage that the senators and the capitol hill workers are trying to be exempt from the obamacare but the rest of suckers HAVE to have it….dang talk about where is our freedom at? This Country is sucking….

Posted by: whatever | May 1, 2013, 6:03 am 6:03 am

The law gives a provision to pay a 1% penalty in lieu of providing ‘proof’ of health insurance through an ‘exchange’. Well guess what? I’ll pay 5k before I’ll pay 20k for BS coverage. I didn’t even spend 2,000.00 on health care in TOTAL last year including dental. The plan is nothing more than masked reparations and a way for the welfare state to continue. This slime ball in chief thinks he’s slick. Well… guess what? The intelligent people of America are already tuned in and fighting back. It’s another money grab… Obama style.

Posted by: Project Manager | May 1, 2013, 6:04 am 6:04 am

There’s that 48 million uninsured number again. REMEMBER that includes ALL illegal aliens. So I guess they will be getting ObamaCare too. And since they don’t earn enough to pay for it themselves, we the people will be covering their PERKS for being here unlawfully.

Posted by: kw2012 | May 1, 2013, 6:05 am 6:05 am

Which proves Rush Limbaugh right about the “low info voter.” They are so stupid, er I mean “with low information,” it’s no wonder they voted Obama back in. They don’t know a thing that’s going on. Pathetic.

Posted by: agentmom | May 1, 2013, 6:31 am 6:31 am

Seriously, 42% of those polled are complete IDIOTS and, being such low-information people, probably voted for Pres. A$$clown in the first place. Everyone with an above-room temperature IQ could see ObummerCare as a a BAD PLAN at its inception. And now even Max Baucus, one of the creators of this train wreck, is calling it a train wreck.

Still, Barry stands by his “signature legislation” and the mouth-breathers who STILL back him nod in agreement (sheep they are). Pathetic. This is the WORST President in history, bar none. It’s going to be a LONG three years of listening to this jerk defend his bad policies.

Posted by: ToldYaSo | May 1, 2013, 6:35 am 6:35 am

75% are still hoping it’s just a bad dream. They passed the law and STILL no one knows what’s in it

Posted by: Big Ed | May 1, 2013, 6:41 am 6:41 am

42% don’t realize that ObamaCare is now a law? Wanna bet it’s the same contingent of braindead Obamaphone voters who helped reinstall the rotten SOB?

Posted by: SFCMAC | May 1, 2013, 6:41 am 6:41 am

Google “Cloward and Piven Strategy”, Obama is now flawlessly employing this plan. It was designed by 1960s radical anarchists, and involves the intentional overloading and collapse of the welfare system, so that Socialists can pick up the ruins and remake them in their design.

Posted by: Rico | May 1, 2013, 6:50 am 6:50 am

Low information voter still = Low IQ voter. Sounds better and politically correct, but same IQ.

Posted by: Rico | May 1, 2013, 6:54 am 6:54 am

“Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, one of the original crafters of the bill…”
And he needs to pay for that mistake with his political career.

Posted by: Fargin Bastiges | May 1, 2013, 7:06 am 7:06 am

For the ones who think that Obamacare is going to pay for everything they need to get a grip. The Obamacare plan that subsidy’s are based on only covers 70% of your bills and the out of pocket is still high. They have deductibles too so the people complaining about their employers plan that has a $1000 deductible are going to get a very rude awakening.

Posted by: Robyn | May 1, 2013, 7:12 am 7:12 am

And you want to encourage more people to vote!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Perplexed | May 1, 2013, 7:23 am 7:23 am

Just some of the DUMBHEADS that elected the biggest DH of all, OBAMA. The dem’s sure know how to pick ‘em.

Posted by: MARY BERG | May 1, 2013, 7:27 am 7:27 am

Nobody has commented on the insurance reimbursement rates. The Dr’s realize they have fallen precipitously already. THIS will be how Obamacare destroys the health care system. More Physicians are retiring all the time because of this and the strangling regulations. In 10 years, we will be just like the other Western Socialist Countries; a two tier system with the poor and working classes dumped into a triaged system of “cost management” and “exchanges” while the rich and ruling classes employ the few Dr’s that have carved out practices serving the “elites”. You’ve been warned repeatedly but believed the lying scum politicians. It may very well cost you your life.

Posted by: nadadhimmi | May 1, 2013, 7:31 am 7:31 am

Why is anyone surprised at the poll results? Low information voters are the foundation of the Democrat Party’s continued existence.

Posted by: PaulInPgh | May 1, 2013, 7:31 am 7:31 am

“Instead, they resemble tax forms, inquiring about income, Social Security numbers and employment history.”

Maybe because they don’t really care about your health, just your money and your IRS enforced loyalty.

Our president makes me puke

Posted by: gendel007 | May 1, 2013, 7:47 am 7:47 am

42%? If you add another 5% for your bnasic limo liberal elitist and a few more percent for fraud that’s pretty much how the lord-master got elected.

Posted by: gendel007 | May 1, 2013, 7:49 am 7:49 am

We have this miserable piece of dung for a President because 42% of America are total idiots. It is a good thing breathing is a higher brain function because that 42% would be in serious trouble.

Posted by: Bobthe Plumber | May 1, 2013, 7:50 am 7:50 am

Shocking !! I wonder who makes up this per centage .. Hmmm could it be the sheep who idolize the chosen one ?

Posted by: BostonBoy | May 1, 2013, 7:51 am 7:51 am

It’s people like you – a small disturbed minority – attempting to divide the country, and failing miserably.

Posted by: Rob | May 1, 2013, 3:12 am 3:12 am

Pot, meet kettle.

Posted by: YYZ | May 1, 2013, 8:02 am 8:02 am

Probably a bigger percentage think it’s free. Are they in for a rude awakening.

Posted by: astralweeks | May 1, 2013, 8:13 am 8:13 am

Amazing, what we have now become is a bunch of sheep being lead to slaughter. Over 40% of our population does not seem to care enough to know about a law that is going to bankrupt this country, or care enough to educate themselves about what is going on in our country. Way too many of us are ignoring what congress is doing to our freedoms and liberty, and that is is going to be the start of our downfall. When we as a people cannot even take the time to learn about something so important as this new law, then we have ceased to be a people who are the leaders in the world. All we seem to care about anymore in this country is Us, ourselves and nothing else. We have become a bunch of idiots following a bunch of idiots..

Posted by: Joe Lucido | May 1, 2013, 8:14 am 8:14 am

42% of Americans unaware that Obama healthcare control is law…about the same percentage of morons that voted for Obama in the first place. Americans are in for a rude awakening, so watch for those Democrats that were all for it to run for the hills like Baucus of Montana and watch for the house and senate to exempt themselves from it.

Posted by: kestrel27 | May 1, 2013, 8:19 am 8:19 am

This is like being unaware that there is a moon in the sky. It must be the moronic plague.

Posted by: newjerseybt | May 1, 2013, 8:20 am 8:20 am

Translation: About 1 of every 2 people you meet is an abject moron and waste of space.

Posted by: Adam | May 1, 2013, 8:22 am 8:22 am

KCurryz – can we stop with the horrible car insurance analogy. I have car insurance because if I get into an accident I might damage someone else’s person/property. I have no coverage for my own car. My not having health insurance does not put you at risk of getting sick or having a medical emergency. I, however, do not think that you should pay for my health insurance (which if you pay any federal income taxes you will be doing since I will qualify for a tax credit with which to buy insurance).

Posted by: Mark | May 1, 2013, 8:27 am 8:27 am

“I’d never thought this day would ever happen. I won’t have to worry ’bout putting gas in my car, I won’t have to worry ’bout payin’ my mortgage. You know, If I help him, he’s gonna help me.” – Ms. Peggy Joseph, Obama Supporter, 2008

Posted by: The 42 Percent | May 1, 2013, 8:28 am 8:28 am

Uh, no Rob. Sorry, it’s leftwingnut wackos like you that are dividing the country as evident of your hypocritical post. Morons like you continuously call other people out for their ‘limited intelligence’ while displaying absolutely none of your own. You seem to think whatever it is you are feeling in that tender little heart of yours counts as intelligence while the rest of us base our arguments on facts and statistics. You sir are a total and complete fool and a disingenuous intellectually bankrupt moron.

Posted by: vikesguy | May 1, 2013, 8:28 am 8:28 am

Who did not know from the beginning Obamacare was a government power grab and, by definition, a train wreck for the country?

Posted by: sandiego1969 | May 1, 2013, 8:31 am 8:31 am

“They don’t demonize the president, nor do they demonize Democrats.”

But it’s completely fine that little liberal obama soldiers like yourself demonize republicans and Bush on a daily basis. Do some research on the meaning of intellectual consistency and then get back to us. And just thinking it means whatever you want it to mean doesn’t count. You know, the way you wacko liberals usually operate?

Posted by: vikesguy | May 1, 2013, 8:32 am 8:32 am

hahaha you bloody low informed people are going to be hit up side the head by paying into this expensive system. You had no ideal what he did in 2009???…Prob don’t know how many EO’s he has issues to violate public law too, eh? And that was before his re-election, Benghazi, too. Whistle-blowers may end up in jail…whisked away without one MSM reporting it to the low informed ones…moooooo.

Get a fracking clue SOON!!!

Posted by: Stan | May 1, 2013, 8:37 am 8:37 am

If the congress pass’s a law. but it is so confusing the no one can find out about it, because we have to pass it to find out what is in it, and no one can find the forms to fill out because they have not been made up yet, Is the president still an idiot?

Posted by: Harry Dresden | May 1, 2013, 8:38 am 8:38 am

And I am sure they all voted for Obboomba! Makes you kind of wonder why this country is going down the tubes. This POTUS is supported by Blacks, Muslims, Arabs, Felons, illegals, illiterate and the unemployed! Soon this is what this country will be!
The working Whites Christians and productive members of society are considered the enemy!

Posted by: American | May 1, 2013, 8:38 am 8:38 am

“They don’t demonize the president, nor do they demonize Democrats.”

But it’s completely fine that little liberal obama soldiers like yourself demonize republicans and Bush on a daily basis. Do some research on the meaning of intellectual consistency and then get back to us. And just thinking it means whatever you want it to mean doesn’t count. You know, the way you wacko liberals usually operate?

Posted by: vikesguy | May 1, 2013, 8:32 am 8:32 am

Liberals love tolerance until you disagree with them.

Liberals are the fascists of the 21st century.

Posted by: Jeff | May 1, 2013, 8:38 am 8:38 am

The 42% who don’t know about it are the Obama voters who are still waiting for their free healthcare. They will really love Obama when they find out they are getting is a tax penalty for not buying insurance that they can’t afford.

Repeal ObamaCare! Impeach Obama!

Posted by: God is my insurer | May 1, 2013, 8:39 am 8:39 am

Wait until they hear about the Obama death panels that are also part of this legislation

Posted by: bRAD | May 1, 2013, 8:39 am 8:39 am

Most likely these 42% idiots voted in the last election when they should not have…

Posted by: Harry | May 1, 2013, 8:39 am 8:39 am

The only way to boot the ridiculous heathcare plan is to simply refuse to pay for it. It really is that simple, people. No American life for me…..no money for them. Everyone needs to put their big boy panties on and turn our backs on the organized crime that is destroying our nation.

Posted by: Diane | May 1, 2013, 8:42 am 8:42 am

Nice try ABC. The Republican effort to fill in the holes in Obamacare last week were not shot down by Cantor’s fellow Republicans only.

From USAToday: “The health care legislation faced a veto threat from the White House and broad Democratic opposition, so the vote was largely symbolic to underscore an alternative path to cover sick Americans.”

Thanks for telling us half truths and half the story. Much appreciated.

Posted by: Ed | May 1, 2013, 8:47 am 8:47 am

Just remember Oboozo promised everyone health insurance. He NEVER promised there would be doctors around to treat you!!!
As a physician, I will not be around much longer to play by the Obamacare rules. Just wait a few years, about 50% of my colleagues are considering quitting. There is no reason to continue to work under the conditions mandated by the Demacrooks. But don’t worry,they will claim they never supported the bill or claim they never read it, the Marxist media will give them a free ride and in a few years the dumb public will reelect them. You don’t need to wonder why the rest of the world looks at this country and can’t understand how these people got elected

Posted by: Shane | May 1, 2013, 8:47 am 8:47 am

When making the inquiries about Obamacare, did the people taking the poll ask if the respondents were registered voters and if they voted in the last election? I have a hard time understanding why people voted for Obama. Some were committed democrats or liberals and would vote for him or any other democrat running. Some voted for him for one simple reason: he’s black. Could it be that so many others voted for him because they are just plain old ignorant. They have no understanding about anything but voted for Obama because they believed all the rhetoric and saw him on NBC and Divid Lettermen all the time. The are getting what they deserve.

Posted by: kimdi01 | May 1, 2013, 8:51 am 8:51 am

“For the 85 to 90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, this thing’s already happened, and their only impact is that their insurance is stronger, better, more secure than it was before,” President Obama said. “Full stop. That’s it. Now they don’t have to worry about anything else.”
HMMMMM – that’s interesting… “stronger, better, more secure”??? My parents insurance company, who they’ve been with for 35 years is CLOSING because of Obamacare. They cannot even afford to to keep their doors open because of all of the extra expenses this crap has caused.

Posted by: Annoyed | May 1, 2013, 8:56 am 8:56 am

“Wouldn’t it be fun to see how many of those completely uniformed are Republican voters.”

How delightfully ironic. Yes, most folks in the armed services vote Republican…

Posted by: nonya | May 1, 2013, 9:01 am 9:01 am

My father always said “a people gets the government it deserves…” we have a a country that fell for Obama’s Razzle Dazzle rather than take the time to learn about his experience, record in the IL Senate, associations, and the rest. Big surprise that when you vote “feel good” not “good track record” you get a disaster like Obama. For those of us who took the time to investigate his record, none of the failures come as a surprise. Sadly, we will suffer the consequences along with everyone else. Max Baucus was right on when he said Obamacare implementation was a train wreck… and we will all get run down as it goes careening by.

Posted by: AmusedNot | May 1, 2013, 9:05 am 9:05 am

Barrack Hussein Obama has completed the Demonetization of the United States of America by making murders out of 15 year old girls by giving them the morning after abortion pill. Really makes you proud to be an American.

Posted by: Edeard Boothe | May 1, 2013, 9:12 am 9:12 am

To think that same 42% voted as well. They still feel warm and fuzzy that we have our second black president. Doesn’t matter that he has a marxist ideology and that their whole world is about to change for the worse. Or is that 42% the ones that do not pay taxes and will receive free obamacare?

Posted by: tymtrvlr | May 1, 2013, 9:12 am 9:12 am

Those Medical Loss Ratio restrictions have the insurance companies in cahoots with the providers to jack up prices. The only way the insurance companies can increase their revenues is if the providers charge 10X what they used to, and the insurance co pays their 80%. The insurance companies have no limit to what they can charge for premiums, as long as they don’t keep more than 10% of what they pay out in benefits. So, my husband went to a podiatrist to have one callous trimmed off one toe, and the bill was almost $1000!!!!

Posted by: Anne | May 1, 2013, 9:14 am 9:14 am

Obama has ObamaCare designed to fail..he views its failure as the path to total government contol of healthcare. Then when that fails, it won’t be a trainwreck,, it will be a nation wide disaster!

Posted by: Helmetbreaker | May 1, 2013, 9:27 am 9:27 am

42% of the people are ignorant because they get their “news” from ABC and other lamestream media conduits. They push Obama’s B.S. and then wonder why people are stupid?

Posted by: Vince Foster | May 1, 2013, 9:33 am 9:33 am

Those Medical Loss Ratio restrictions have the insurance companies in cahoots with the providers to jack up prices. The only way the insurance companies can increase their revenues is if the providers charge 10X what they used to, and the insurance co pays their 80%. The insurance companies have no limit to what they can charge for premiums, as long as they don’t keep more than 10% of what they pay out in benefits. So, my husband went to a podiatrist to have one callous trimmed off one toe, and the bill was almost $1000!!!!

Posted by: Anne | May 1, 2013, 9:14 am 9:14 am

You are grossly oversimplifying the situation.

Health care costs are driven by demand and medical advances. Millions of Medicare patients receive far more health care than they need, driving up costs, and therefore premiums for everyone else. There is little cost transparency. Most people don’t even know what medical procedures really cost. If they’re insured and have few out-of-pocket costs, they have no incentive to control their demand, again driving up costs for everyone else.

Insurance companies are HIGHLY regulated. As for their profits, Google “Industry Browser – Healthcare – Health Care Plans – Company List”. The average net profit margin across the entire industry is 3.6%, which is considered low. Apple Computer’s is 22%. Google’s is 24%. The soft drink beverage industry averages 11.6%.

If corporate greed is your concern, you’d better start boycotting Apple.

Posted by: Paul S | May 1, 2013, 9:33 am 9:33 am

If by stronger, better, more secure he means “reduced benefits, increased costs and heavily taxed”, I would have to agree with him.

Helmetbreaker, you are spot on.

Posted by: Astrodog | May 1, 2013, 9:37 am 9:37 am

Obama has ObamaCare designed to fail..he views its failure as the path to total government contol of healthcare. Then when that fails, it won’t be a trainwreck,, it will be a nation wide disaster!

Posted by: Helmetbreaker | May 1, 2013, 9:27 am 9:27 am

That’s true. Obamacare is not socialized medicine yet. But it’s the first step toward that ultimate goal. Obama said as much on videotape before he became president. By undercutting private insurance companies (using taxpayer dollars) and adding huge regulatory burdens, the companies are crowded out and run out of business. After a certain tipping point is reached, private sector healthcare is damaged beyond repair and socialized medicine can be achieved. It’ll be a disaster if it happens of course, but Progressives never learn from their mistakes, even when they’re victimized by their own policies. You can’t fix stupid.

Posted by: ck | May 1, 2013, 9:38 am 9:38 am

So Romney was off by 5%. It’s 42% and not 47% that are pledged to the under-informed masses that suck the life out of the economy. Problem is, many these dunces vote and teh media is complicit in their ignorance.

Posted by: beenaroundyaknow | May 1, 2013, 9:47 am 9:47 am

CNBC:

The gloomy news continued for jobs as ADP reported Wednesday that private companies created just 119,000 new positions in April.

That was well below expectations and confirmation that the labor market is slowing heading into late spring and early summer.

Economists surveyed by Reuters expected the ADP report to show the private sector created 150,000 jobs in April, down from 158,000 in March.

“Nearly every industry has seen slower growth since the beginning of the year,” Moody’s economist Mark Zandi said on CNBC. “Smaller businesses are experiencing much weaker growth.”

Posted by: Forward! | May 1, 2013, 9:49 am 9:49 am

The best way to create prosperity and millions of middle class jobs for chronically unemployed American citizens is to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and their families. Oh, and we must make every form of welfare available to them and any extended family they want to bring here. After all, we wouldn’t want to break up families. Illegal alien children should also get taxpayer-funded tutors and subsidized in-state college tuition rates even though American children can’t. It’s really the best use of limited taxpayer dollars and it’s the fair thing to do. Legal citizens have had it good for too long. It’s time that they cut their standard of living further for the good of illegal immigrants. As long as I don’t pay higher taxes to cover the costs. I prefer being generous with other people’s money.

Posted by: fox free | May 1, 2013, 9:54 am 9:54 am

We’re not unaware. We just prefer to pay the fine rather than participate. It’s called “freedom”. Yes, Obama wants me to pay for my freedom but, if that is what is necessary then that is what I and my family will do.

Posted by: Jim Biven | May 1, 2013, 9:54 am 9:54 am

The funny thing is probably all 42% are part of the total percentage that voted for the idiot in chief.

Posted by: jeff | May 1, 2013, 9:56 am 9:56 am

As the reality of Obamacare sinks in with the debt, increasing lack of service, and now unafordable insurance despite promises. The Democrats who voted for this boondoggle will have some “splainin ta do” with the voters!
Even the Santa Claus Welfare group will begin to understand as they text on their “free” cell phone.

Posted by: NeoConVet | May 1, 2013, 9:59 am 9:59 am

“For the 85 to 90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, this thing’s already happened, and their only impact is that their insurance is stronger, better, more secure than it was before,” President Obama said. “Full stop. That’s it. Now they don’t have to worry about anything else.”

Full stop? What about the FACT that this legislation has already doubled my effective cost of insurance, Barry? What about the FACT that the provisions of this abomination have not even come into full effect yet and will CONTINUE to raise my cost of insurance, Barry?

Can we impeach this liar yet?

Posted by: Justin | May 1, 2013, 10:06 am 10:06 am

The funny thing is probably all 42% are part of the total percentage that voted for the idiot in chief.

Posted by: jeff | May 1, 2013, 9:56 am 9:56 am

Even many of the 58% are clueless. They called our medical practice right after Obama signed the ACA and asked how they can get their free health care.

Posted by: lpn | May 1, 2013, 10:10 am 10:10 am

“He went on to say those who would have trouble with implementation were the roughly 48 million Americans who are uninsured to begin with, a minority of the population.
“For the 85 to 90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance…”

So, neither the president nor ABC News (because they don’t call him on it) know the population of the USA. By the above, if “90 percent of Americans already have insurance”, then 10% do not. If “48 million Americans..are uninsured,” that means that 10% of our poulation = 48 million, and therefore, by Obama’s reckoning, the population of the US is 480 million. Except it’s actually around 310 million. Smartest president ever.

Posted by: MathChallenged | May 1, 2013, 10:11 am 10:11 am

Yeah, this is real “care”. It amazes me that the people in this country are as stupid as they are. Only stupid people would have elected this joke of a president not once but TWICE! Did we not see how bad he was in the first 4 years of office? And now we have more of his ridiculous antics for another 4 years! This guy does not deserve to be president – hell I still don’t believe he is a natural born citizen! time to take back this country and get the AMERICAN people working again. We do not need hundreds of thousands of immigrants here illegally and taking our jobs and our hard earned money. C’mon people!

Posted by: Petey | May 1, 2013, 10:16 am 10:16 am

Half the country is on the public dole. They could care less about Obama or his Care.

Posted by: JT11 | May 1, 2013, 10:19 am 10:19 am

So we now have 42% of Americans that don’t know they are about to be ripped off for another $2000. $3500 a year and more for their insurance. LMAO,,,Must be Obama supporters,,,no one else is this stupid..

Posted by: DutchUncle | May 1, 2013, 10:21 am 10:21 am

Fear not, the rubes who supported the fantasy of free medical care (i.e. Obama Care) will learn soon enough about the law. The pain of paying has only just begun. Much, much more to follow.

Posted by: Packard1 | May 1, 2013, 10:24 am 10:24 am

I am taking the author of Obamacare at his word as it is a trainwreck. What I am completely surprised about is Obama hasn’t blamed the sequester for the federal government not doing their part to set up Obamacare. Obama passed the legislation to help his agenda and then the government simply sat on their hands and did nothing to set anything up. Obama says, these things take time, but they have had over 3 years to set it up. Pathetic.

Posted by: Commonsenseparty | May 1, 2013, 10:33 am 10:33 am

These are the same morons that re elected the clown

Posted by: milesll | May 1, 2013, 10:35 am 10:35 am

Obamacare is a tax and it violates the Constitution which says all tax bills have to originate in the House, not the Senate. Letting Obamacare stand is very dangerous.

Posted by: Freedom | May 1, 2013, 10:38 am 10:38 am

Let bring the 42% up to speed – this is the beginning of the end for health care in the United States and it will be quickly followed by the collapse of the country as a whole. Obama has successfully destroyed the country you once knew.

Posted by: AtlasObjectivist | May 1, 2013, 10:53 am 10:53 am

Let me bring the 42% up to speed – this is the beginning of the end for health care in the United States and it will be quickly followed by the collapse of the country as a whole. Obama has successfully destroyed the country you once knew.

Posted by: AtlasObjectivist | May 1, 2013, 10:54 am 10:54 am

Let bring the 42% up to speed – this is the beginning of the end for health care in the United States and it will be quickly followed by the collapse of the country as a whole. Obama has successfully destroyed the country you once knew.

Posted by: AtlasObjectivist | May 1, 2013, 10:53 am 10:53 am

If Obamacare doesn’t totally finish us off, the invasion of tens of millions more illegal aliens certainly will.

It’s all by design. The Cloward-Piven Strategy is being executed before our eyes while the sheep in America sleep. Through ignorance and with the media’s complicity, Americans have willingly allowed Progressives to destroy their way of life. When the welfare system collapses under its own weight and wealthy taxpayers flee the country, the fat, dumb, and happy 42% will finally be hit with cold, hard reality just as the Sandy storm dumpster divers were. Government isn’t going to save them.

Posted by: sj | May 1, 2013, 11:30 am 11:30 am

The 42% that do not know OBAMACARE is law, dont know because they are already on welfare, not needing to know. Theirs is already paid for!!

Posted by: Neils Clausen | May 1, 2013, 11:31 am 11:31 am

The 42% that do not know OBAMACARE is law, dont know because they are already on welfare, not needing to know. Theirs is already paid for!!

Posted by: Neils Clausen | May 1, 2013, 11:31 am 11:31 am

Until the money runs out.

Posted by: sj | May 1, 2013, 11:39 am 11:39 am

They will find out when that money starts coming out of their checks.

Posted by: BDK | May 1, 2013, 11:43 am 11:43 am

Head in the Sand
Head in the Sand
All the Obama voters.
Have their head in the sand……………

Posted by: jeff | May 1, 2013, 11:49 am 11:49 am

Before Thanksgiving last year, our local Kroger store announced that existing part-time workers and new hires would be limited to working 28 hours per week and they specifically cited Obamacare’s mandates as the reason. When I worked there while in college, I was considered “part time” but always worked 40-50 hours a week, sometimes 10 hour shifts on weekends. It was great. UFCW shop. Paid new hires well. I made really good money. Those days are gone! Elections have consequences, America. College students who voted for Obama will now pay the price. Say goodbye to the full-time job, you dopes.

Posted by: Marty | May 1, 2013, 11:52 am 11:52 am

Just a guess..but I would assume that 42% is predominately the LIV voters…you know the ones that voted for Obama AND Democrats. To paraphrase ‘Blazing Saddles’…You know..morons…

Posted by: Glubber | May 1, 2013, 11:53 am 11:53 am

The ABC News article describes the group that took the poll, the Kaiser Family Foundation, as “non-partisan”–presumably, in an effort to burnish the credentials of the polltaker.
The KFF is about as “nonpartisan” as the Obama re-election campaign–or ABC. For the latest (2012) campaign the FEC lists 16 campaign contributions by people who work for the KFF. ALL 16 were to Democrats. None to Republicans.
KFF has declared itself to be partisan Democrat. Why does ABC attempt to hide that fact?

Posted by: Collamore | May 1, 2013, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm

This 42 percent is the majority of ignorant imbeciles that Mitt Romney made remarks about.

Mitt was right all along you stupid fools!

Posted by: Roddy Piper | May 1, 2013, 12:20 pm 12:20 pm

Well this 42% plus the 47% Romney warned us about who are already nurse from the government teat and will likely jump lovingly into Obamacare that only leaves 11% of the population. Who are they and what are they doing?

Posted by: Ernie | May 1, 2013, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm

This is no surprise to me at all! Those of us who keep up on subjects like this bill and actually read it were made fun of called fanatics. Just be aware this law is “EVER evolving” nothing is set in stone. “TO BE DETERMINED BY” is a VERY open ended statement which appears throughout the bill. This gives complete control of our healthcare system to our federal government which is a poor stewart to say the least of our $$. Until our population is EDUCATED on the issues we will continue to become more and more socialized country. As a healthcare provider I tell you without a shred of doubt this bill is a disaster to our healthcare system and a disaster to our economy!! OPEN YOUR EYES AMERICA!!

Posted by: Jeaneane Landers | May 1, 2013, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

I would bet money that most of the people commenting against the bill don’t really understand/know what it contains either!

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm

The 42% are comprised of 100% Maobama voters. They are dedicated Obammunists.

They are lost, beyond hope or help. And they don’t care as long as they get their Obamaphones, Food Stamps, housing grants, educational grants, their FREE Obamacare, free birth control and abortions, free sex change operations, etc., (remember, the recipient class pays for nothing as they are a chosen/special class.)

They are also want the evil rich people (i.e. working men and women) pay their fair share of taxes of course, while they pay none.

And these same ignorant people will vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016…. God help us all.

Posted by: RD Scott | May 1, 2013, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm

Marty, it isn’t great that a company can work people 40 to 50 hours a week and still designate them as part-timers. What that does is give that store or company an unfair advantage over their competitors who are doing the right thing and providing their full time workers with benefits. They in turn would be forced to not provide benefits to their workers to compete on prices.
This creates a downward spiral for workers.
We know that a lot of those without insurance actually have jobs, they aren’t moochers. And we know that 40,000 Americans were dying each year because they didn’t have health insurance. That should be unacceptable to all of us.
By leveling the playing field, that all employers who have a certain number of workers have to provide health insurance coverage, we keep the number of uninsured lower. As Papa John said, he was against the ACA because if he provided health insurance for his workers, he would have to raise the price of a large pizza a whopping 14 cents!! That is way less than one extra topping!

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm

RD scott, what makes you think that the uniformed on the ACA are Democrats? Most Democrats I know are informed, that is one of the reasons why they voted for Obama, they knew the ACA was a good law.
What specifically don’t you like about the ACA? And if your knowledge of it just consists of Repub talking points, realize that you may have been misinformed!

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm

Not only do my rates for healthcare go up with Obamacare but I get the same if not worse treatment. Can we not force people to pay out the ass for healthcare? If someone doesn’t want it, why do we punish them with a heavy fee. Average low income households that have to pay for Obamacare will be bankrupted. It only helps the small percentage that have very low to zero income. Those that are considered working poor are the ones taking the worst of this. The USA will never work on socialism for it depends on capitalism to keep working.

Posted by: Poor And Broke Moderate | May 1, 2013, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm

Justin, if your health care has truly doubled, you are being ripped off. My husband works for a large company and our health care costs have leveled off since the ACA after going up steadily that last 15 years!

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm

Poor and broke moderate, everyone who works should buy it, because if they get sick we all end up paying for their care through higher premiums. Think about it, when a hospital has to care for someone who is uninsured and can’t pay, they pass on that loss to the rest of us paying customers! Think!

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

It’s hilarious watching you wackos give each other heart attacks with your insane conspiracy theories, but the rest of the country is tired for getting the bill. If you don’t want insurance, please die quietly, and don’t make anyone who isn’t a right wing radical extremist Nazi type have to pay for it. Or better yet, leave the country now. You are not wanted here. Don’t you get it? This country does not want you. Can’t we make it clearer. It is the grudge report wackos that cause things like what happened in Boston. It is you who is wrong with the country. You are the minority, and you’re scared. If you don’t like the way the country is moving socially, then GTFO please.

Posted by: someguy | May 1, 2013, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

I haven’t read one comment against the ACA that contains a true and specific complaint! It is obvious who that uninformed 42% largely consists of!! lol

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm

Jeanane Landers, are you aware that the government runs Medicare with only a 4% overhead? That means of all the premiums collected, fully 96% is spent on actual medical bills for patients, only 4% is spent on the administrative end. Compare that to private companies which were spending 30 to 40% on overhead!! Doesn’t that seem like a big waste of our premiums?
You do realize that the ACA is not government run healthcare? It is simply a set of laws putting limitations on health insurance companies ( like no more banning folks with pre-existing conditions, including babies!) and making more employers provide health insurance for workers and mandating states to provide insurance pools so people who are self employed or who work for small companies can get better rates by being part of a group, etc. It is all about consumer protection!

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

And we know that 40,000 Americans were dying each year because they didn’t have health insurance.

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm

Tens of thousands of Americans WITH HEALTHCARE INSURANCE die each year. Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd had the best healthcare insurance and best doctors in the world…better than you can ever hope to have. They both still died. Lots of people on Medicare die every single day. It’s been estimated that up to 195,000 people are killed each year due to preventable medical errors. Most have healthcare insurance.

Posted by: truth | May 1, 2013, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm

are you aware that the government runs Medicare with only a 4% overhead?

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

Nonsense. That’s government math. If Medicare was run so well, it wouldn’t be nearly bankrupt despite the fact it only covers 14% of the population. Think.

Posted by: truth | May 1, 2013, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm

Justin, if your health care has truly doubled, you are being ripped off. My husband works for a large company and our health care costs have leveled off since the ACA after going up steadily that last 15 years!

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm

The ACA regulations take full effect next year. There are already over 20,000 PAGES of regulations. Anyone who thinks these regulations won’t make health care more expensive is a moron.

Posted by: jd | May 1, 2013, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

Truth, no, that is real math. Of the amount of premiums collected for Medicare, fully 96% are spent on patient’s bills and only 4% on overhead. The fact that Medicare’s budget is higher each year has a lot to do with aging baby boomers reaching retirement coupled with the high prices charged for medical care today. That 14% of the population it covers is elderly and thus is in need of much more medical care than younger people. We could straighten Medicare’s budget with an increase in Medicare deductions for richer folks or some other small adjustment on the income side as well as continuing to search out fraud as well as the over-charging hospitals are known for! I know when my dad was in the hospital we found a lot of bill padding and reported it.

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

Most Democrats I know are informed, that is one of the reasons why they voted for Obama, they knew the ACA was a good law.

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm

LOL! The Democrat legislators didn’t even know what’s in the ACA, and they supposedly WROTE IT and VOTED for it.

Google “How Obama Got Elected… Interviews With Obama Voters” and “Howard Stern Exposes Obama Supporters 2012 “.

Those are the 42%. You’re part of the group.

Posted by: sj | May 1, 2013, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm

To clear up some of the confusion, while Obamacare is not “government” insurance it DOES mandate what coverage is. This means we have no choice, which means self-employed folks like me are forced to get Cadillac insurance. It means that my cost will go up (and if my wife gets a job, it will be dramatic) and out-of-pocket go up or stay the same.

All the things Republicans wanted were ignored. Allow buying insurance out of state, legal reforms, etc.

People have posted about “greedy” insurance companies, give me an example where the government runs anything cheaper or better than private for profit business? We will pay much more and get far less. There are better solutions, look at Germany, Switzerland, even France. The UK and Canada are horrible. The costs in Canada have been shifted to the provinces and now they are getting huge debts.

Regarding amendments to ACA, it was passed without allowing for amendments, it’s all or nothing. There may be some way to alter it but it’s not simple.

Posted by: StanO432 | May 1, 2013, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm

And when Gov. Romney, in an aside comment, references 47% class of people…well, NOW 99% of us have been snookered into Howdy-Doody Care, and as the article says 42% don’t even know it?!?
If Bill Ayres, and all the liberal tenured hot-shots at Harvard et.al. can preach their destructive liberal views you can bloody-well bet I’m using my classroom platform to preach just how stupidly most have been duped.
Wake up America, you’ve been screwed but you’re NOT dead yet.

Posted by: Scott | May 1, 2013, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

Truth, no, that is real math.

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

No. It’s not. If Medicare was a company that complied with standard accounting principles (GAAP), they would have already gone bankrupt years ago. There isn’t enough money in the world to cover its current obligations, let alone support the remaining 86% of the population. Medicaid alone is going to bankrupt some states, including my own. The salad days are about over. Big premium increases and even bigger benefit cuts are inevitable. The Utopian world Progressives always dreamed of is here, full of poverty, government dependence, and ignorance. Embrace it. Your ignorance helped make it possible.

Posted by: Ruben | May 1, 2013, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

JD, I would think it moronic to assume more regulations will increase costs for consumers. If you took the time to read some of it you would realize it is consumer protection. The volume of paperwork is necessary to decrease the number of loopholes that had allowed insurance companies to cheat their customers in the past! Did you know that insurance companies had employed a whole team of ‘investigators’ who would comb through a patients past medical records if they were very ill with a costly disease like cancer. And if they found that patient had been treated for anything at all, like acne as a teen and hadn’t told them, they would cancel their insurance, even though that acne treatment had nothing to do with their cancer! Some would also refuse to cover a new born with a medical problem, claiming it was a pre existing condition!
We need those regulations to protect us from the greed of the worst insurance company practices!

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:19 pm 1:19 pm

Ruben, nice job changing to the subject of Medicaid when we were talking about Medicare. You do realize that they are two separate and distinct programs?
As yourself why so many are on Medicaid? Is it because less and less employers are providing insurance to the working poor? Is it because the greed of corporations is allowing them to run businesses on mainly part-timers who they don’t provide health insurance to??
Corporate greed is at the root of most of our economic problems.

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

I would think it moronic to assume more regulations will increase costs for consumers

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:19 pm 1:19 pm

Wow. You are truly clueless. Go ask your doctor if the ACA regulations will lower their costs.

Posted by: Ruben | May 1, 2013, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm

As yourself why so many are on Medicaid?

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

Hope and Change?

Posted by: carl | May 1, 2013, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm

Is it because less and less employers are providing insurance to the working poor? Is it because the greed of corporations is allowing them to run businesses on mainly part-timers who they don’t provide health insurance to??

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

Since you’re the business expert, go start your own company, employ thousands, and pay them all six figure salaries with generous benefits. Who’s stopping you?

Posted by: sj | May 1, 2013, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm

Stan0432, you do not seem to understand why the ACA mandates what is the least coverage allowed in a policy. It is because almost half of bankruptcies are due to medical bills by folks who had health insurance only to discover how truly little it covered when they needed it.
The cost of insurance is a necessity, not a luxury, if one cares about taking care of yourself and not having others pay for your medical care if you get ill, and if you care about the financial health of your family. A responsible adult buys good coverage health insurance if they are working. This is going to be more affordable to do with the ACA, because everyone buying will lower premiums, and those who are self-employed or work for a small company will be able to buy insurance through their state’s insurance pool.

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

Reuben, my doctor loves the ACA and thinks it was about 30 years late. Ask any doctor if they want the greed of insurance companies put on a leash! Because the ACA has so many regs that will limit their greed. My doctor has found it sickening that the insurance companies were trying to dictate which treatments and test were allowed which he knew his patients needed. (He is a cardiologist.)

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm

They are part of the 47% who are uneducated and voted for Obama…now they pay the price. And, ask not only the medical profession, but all professions and if “regulations” increase or decrease costs? By the very definition of “regulations”…paperwork, time consumption and more people to check off the boxes!

Posted by: Sharin | May 1, 2013, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

This is going to be more affordable to do with the ACA, because everyone buying will lower premiums, and those who are self-employed or work for a small company will be able to buy insurance through their state’s insurance pool.

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

The Society of Actuaries (SOA) predicted that, thanks to sicker patients joining the coverage pool, medical claims per member will rise 32 percent in the individual plans expected to dominate the ACA exchanges next year. In some states costs will rise as much as 80 percent. Median middle class incomes are down by 10% under Obama. Families don’t have an Obama Stash to tap. They’ll just pay the IRS fines, which are significantly less than the premiums. If they get really sick, they’ll buy insurance and stick you with the bill. Oh, and Emergency Room visits by illegal aliens will still continue after the ACA takes effect.

Posted by: sj | May 1, 2013, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm

The Main Stream Media(read, ABC NEWS) are responsible for this train wreck and lack of knowledge about Obamacare. They have hidden this nightmare to further their Progressive/Socialist agendas at the expense of the destruction of a huge part of the American economy. America WILL wake up and push back.

Posted by: BillyDKidd | May 1, 2013, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

SJ, you don’t seem to grasp the concept of ‘race to the bottom’. When companies are not prevented from doing worker -harmful things, like largely hiring part-timers to avoid paying benefits or eliminating benefits outright, they can charge less for their product or service, as well as make more profit for themselves. This put their competitors at a price disadvantage, so they are forced to cut full time workers and/or cut benefits. This creates a harmful ‘race to the bottom’, where workers are working for less and with fewer benefits. The result is more poor people, more uninsured people and more harm to families and our economy as workers have less spare income to spend at all businesses. It is no way to grow an economy but is a recipe for an unhealthy one.

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

SJ, do those mysterious actuaries factor in all the healthy people who will gladly buy insurance now that it will be more affordable through group plans. Everyone I know who can’t afford insurance is eager to buy it, they know it is important for financial health as well as for their physical health.
You do realize that in most states the number of illegal aliens using emergency rooms was a drop in the bucket compared to the working poor that used them?

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm

Billydkidd, admit it, the only thing you know about the ACA is the misinformation you learned from conservative sources (read that as corporate influenced).

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

Everyone should realize that the health insurance industry spent many millions fighting the ACA because it will limit their greed. They were spending 30 to 40% of your premiums on overhead (ceo million dollar bonuses included!) but in 2014 the ACA will limit their overhead to 15 to 20% of premiums collected!!
Realize that some of the folks commenting here against the ACA may have been profiting from those free and easy days prior to it!
Think, the insurance companies didn’t spend millions to fight the ACA because they care about YOU!

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

If it’s good enough for us, it’s good enough for all of our government. If we have to have it, they do too. It’s only right! This plan has NOT made my insurance better, it has made it worse.

Posted by: Amy | May 1, 2013, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm

Amy, specifically, how has it made your insurance worse? Everyone I know with existing insurance has seen leveling of their premiums. You may just be dealing with a bad company. Look to 2014 to see positive changes because health insurance companies will be only allowed to spend 15 to 20% on overhead, rather than the 30 to 40% of premiums that they were spending!

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

Most Democrats I know are informed, that is one of the reasons why they voted for Obama, they knew the ACA was a good law.

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm

Just because you and a few people you know participate in group think doesn’t mean any of you are correct or informed. From what I see in your posts, you don’t have any idea what’s going on around you.

Posted by: Sue | May 1, 2013, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

LOL! The insurance lobby helped write the ACA legislation. Pharma lobbyists also wrote in language that makes it less likely generic drugs will be available in lieu of more expensive brand name drugs.

Your costs are going up and your quality of care is going down. You were lied to. It’s time to accept it.

Posted by: Sue | May 1, 2013, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm

Sue, but I can read and research, so if my reasoning is based on facts, I do know what is going on. If, on the other hand, I just listened to talking heads on the tv or radio, I wouldn’t really know what was going on.
What specifically that I wrote do you factually disagree with?

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm

Sue, you aren’t making a lot of sense. If the insurance industry got to write in what they wanted in the ACA, then why would they have spent so many millions fighting it, in direct ads, in giving donations to politicians who pledged to repeal it, etc.
Again, if you are just listening to industry propaganda, you are being lied to. Accept it.

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

Wow, you’re really naive. It wasn’t Obama’s intention to make health care more affordable. That’s just marketing. The plan was to impoverish Americans and collapse the private health care sector, forcing millions of people on Medicaid. Looks like he’s making great progress. The ARCHITECTS of the ACA are saying it’s a disaster. I’ll take their word for it over yours.

Posted by: Sue | May 1, 2013, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

It isn’t surprising that not one person who is critical of the ACA can name anything specific that is harmful to consumers. I guess removing the lifetime cap on health claims, letting under/uninsured kids stay on their parents policy until 26, no more pre-existing conditions disqualifying babies, children and adults, limiting insurance companies overhead to 15 to 20% from the old 30 to 40%, etc. doesn’t sound good to those consumers. (or are they actually connected to the insurance company and that is why they don’t like the ACA?

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

It is too bad that insurance industry shills aren’t honest enough to admit that is what they are!

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

It is rather scary how a bill nobody wanted (Obamacare) gets rammed through closed door (transparency?) meetings and quickly signed into law before lawmakers (Pelosi) even read it.
And nobody still wants it. At least the majority of this nation anyway. I’m sure the sheep want it and understood it before they read it, because after all, it came from democrats and party before country you know.

Posted by: dd23 | May 1, 2013, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm

Sue, wow, what a conspiracy theory you have going there. Glad to know that you have figured it all out! lol

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm

DD23, 40,000 Americans were dying each year because they lacked affordable insurance. Those who had insurance were being squeezed out of the market in greater numbers because of insurance greed raising premiums, and half of all bankruptcies were due to unpaid medical bills by folks who had insurance! For 40 years, caring people have been trying to get health care reform legislation past Republicans who were shilling for the insurance industry. I have read most of the ACA and have found it to be full of consumer protections. Have you actually read any of it? What specifically do you like/dislike about it?

Posted by: Librarian53 | May 1, 2013, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

Obamacare is a step in the right direction, but not nearly enough of a change. Hopefully in the next decade we’ll see a further erosion of the current broken system. We need to take the middleman (insurance companies) completely out of the equation so that providers can have a personal relationship with their patients. That’s true universal healthcare, and it’s what virtually every other industrialized country has. Man up, America!

Posted by: Adrian | May 1, 2013, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm

just tell them it will increase insurance company profits. that’s all they need to know.

Posted by: nubwaxer | May 1, 2013, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm

Librarian53. The bill doesn’t even go into full effect until January 2014, so how did signing of the bill all of a sudden save 40K of un-insured deaths? What were they dying from before that they are not dying from now. And people have been trying to get affordable health care for only 40 years? Where di you get your facts?

Posted by: Bad Wags | May 1, 2013, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

It’s okay, they are the stupid republicans. Tobacco growing, coal mining, trailer park living, inbred.

Posted by: wayoutwest | May 1, 2013, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

Note to Huh?: Good luck USING your free ObamaCare. I’m sorry you work for a less than stellar company and have crummy benefits.

Years from now when the smoke clears from this train wreck the only winners will be the stockholders for the insurance companies and the Republicans who voted against it.

Posted by: billindallas | May 1, 2013, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

Not a single one of you have talked about what the ACA is. It is insurance. It is NOT affordable heatlh care! It is “affordable” health insurance. It does nothing to “fix” health care. It shifts responsibility to who pays for your insurance, not how good your “care” is. In most cases, it forces you to pay your own premiums (for the cheapest insurance you can get, not the best.) Tell me, how does is this a “solution” to the current health care environment in this country? This country is insane. We never try to solve the underlying problem, instead we try to bandage the result.

Posted by: CarsonCitySteve | May 1, 2013, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm

Doesn’t this level of ignorance say something about the state of media in the US? Obviously, citizens aren’t well informed by the denizens of the mass media complex. Is that a feature or a bug?

Posted by: Carolynp | May 1, 2013, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm

Democrats will run for the hills next year…their “Chickens have come home to roost”.

Posted by: gringo | May 1, 2013, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm

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