Discussion: Public Approval Of Obamacare Hits Record High Ahead Of 2018 Midterms

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And Republicans trying to dismantle the ACA were saying…what?

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Interesting poll numbers – the ACA only grows more popular as all of the GOP’s falsehoods about it have been revealed as lies. No wonder Glenn Greenwald and his internet troll army have been so desperately pushing his “Democrats in disarray on healthcare” nonsense yet again lately. I mean, for someone who claims to care so deeply about threats to Democracy, it’s not like there’s anything happening in the U.S. on that topic to write about, is there? So it sure makes sense at this time to be trying to foster Democratic disunity on healthcare by pushing falsehoods about the “Democrat establishment” instead, huh? I mean, it’s not as if that serves the Putin/GOP interests or anything, does it? No, sir. Not a puppet! You’re the puppet!

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Took a while but…

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

(Thanks Obama).

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Where did Donnie come in on the rating of worst President ever?

Could someone PLEASE remind him?

Repeatedly…

Obviously, Obama’s fault…

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The approval will get higher after it is destroyed. We just cannot appreciate things untill we don’t have them anymore.

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Imagine how poorly Medicaid limits will poll when people learn just how expensive elder care is.

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Yep. The fact that 47% of Republicans are already not in favor of lifetime limits to Medicaid benefits should be a strong reminder to their leaders that there seems to be a sizable contingent of GOP voters who benefit directly from the program or know someone who does. For independents, that number is 64%. Tread lightly, Paul Ryan.

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Just sitting here remembering the days after the ACA became law and Democrats refused to argue on its behalf during election years–and remembering Obama telling them in the early days of the ACA debates that “good policy is good politics.”

Just as @brooklyndweller says above, the arc is taking its own sweet time, but it is indeed bending toward justice.

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I say: Go ahead and stomp on that land mine a little harder, Paul Ryan.

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A new tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds the highest ever public approval rating for the Affordable Care Act since the organization began asking the question in 2010.

I think I’m going to allow myself a chuckle or two.

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Actually, I think your advice to Paul is better (for us in the long run) than mine. Go for it, Ryan!

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“You don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone.”
Thanks Joanie.

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I just love Joni Mitchell

Don’t know what you’ve got
'Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Congratulations America! You’re pulling your heads out of your ass just in time to watch your healthcare sail over the horizon.

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I’m pretty sure that Obama’s popularity is all Obama’s fault.

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Reality time: 30 Million American’s have opt-ed out of ACA. Rates have quadrupled leaving many uninsured. Short-term insurance will probably help 4 million. Hopefully this current round of attack will kill this disaster.

You can practically hear McConnell and Ryan sweating bullets

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So, if it’s a “disaster”, why do so many people approve of it? Why were Republicans- even with total control and will do to so- unable to fully repeal it (root and branch)?

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Ryan is counting the days before he can walk away from the mess he helped create. McConnell is still scheming to destroy everything Obama did for the people of our country. They are both going in the history books as weak partisan hacks who sold their country out and I think they know it.

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The GOP alternative was nothing. Under GWB the premiums on my single parent and child policies doubled every year. The Republican alternative to this disaster has been to fail to come up with a solution. Hopefully, this round of GOP sabotage will bring us closer to Single Payer, and cut out the health insurance cartels to whom your political party is beholden…right after their masters at the NRA.

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