Poll: 62% Approve of Supreme Court Ruling on Obamacare

[Purveyor]

Source: NBC News

by Jessica Washington
Jul 1 2015, 3:24 pm ET

A majority of Americans approve of the Supreme Court decision to continue allowing Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies in all states, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll.

The poll found that 62 percent of Americans support the King v. Burwell decision, while 32 percent disapprove.

The public's approval of the King v. Burwell decision is higher than that of the Supreme Court's 2012 ruling, which also rejected a major challenge to the Obama-backed health care law. About half, 47 percent, approved and 43 percent disapproved of the ruling in that case, according to a Kaiser Health Tracking poll conducted in June 2012.

Despite the public's largely favorable view of the court's decision, opinions regarding the Affordable Care Act are divided, with 43 percent of Americans viewing the law favorably and 40 percent of Americans viewing the law unfavorably.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/poll-62-approve-supreme-court-ruling-obamacare-n385331

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. Now ask the 32% who disaprove to define "Obamacare"....

I guarantee you that a significant chunk will claim it's free healthcare for black people paid for by white people.

[valerief]

4. And free healthcare for immigrants paid for by white people. I think that's

about it.

Teh Stoooopid hurts us all so much.

[RiverNoord]

6. I'm thinking about 80%.

19% are rich people who will claim it's free healthcare for poor people (whatever skin color) paid for by them.

1% are just ordinary idiots.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. I heard a local RW radio host claim the ACA was the Republican plan to counter "Obamacare"....

He then praised key provisions of the ACA like kids being on their parent's policy and tried to claim those were things REPUBLICANS came up with.

When the ACA first passed I was at a party and there was someone there that said in a loud voice, "Don't look for any benefit from that law! We're the wrong skin color!" just as I was coming in. (She's a spoiled daddy's girl and daddy owns a couple of apartment complexes.)

[Chakab]

8. Yep, but that's the same 30-35% of people in the US who are on the wrong side of every issue.

This is about as favorable treatment as anything related to politics can get in an opinion poll.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. I bet most of them believe Iraq did 9/11.

[IronLionZion]

14. A portion of DU sided with the tea party against subsidies

whether it's patients or insurance companies, somebody's getting something they don't deserve!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. The Tea Party wants people to die....

Never could understand why they dress like Colonials who dressed like Indians.

[napi21]

2. I'm surprised it's not higher. Most likely the majority of the 32% are Pubbies who

hate the president and anything associated with him.

I still can't get over a lady from Pgh. who is widowed and paying for her own insurance. We explained how much she could save per month if she enrolled in the ACA program. She absolutely refuses to do that because it's OBAMACARE aand she'll happily pay more for what she has.

I wonder how she's going to feel about medicare (Lyndon Johnson's program) when she reaches 65 in several years?

[Journeyman]

7. Her insurance should have come down regardless of ACA enrollment or not . . .

Mine is 40% of what it used to be, thanks to the ACA, and I pay for private insurance without going through an exchange. In fact, the first year, when we used the exchange, we found there was too much negativity from providers.

We used the exchange that first year to show solidarity with the exchange. The second year, we moved out the moment we could and now have the exact same insurance, from the same provider, for the same money, without the associated negative connotations of being part of Covered California. Weird, but that's just the way some people are.

I have a choice to remove myself from this class of put-upon peoples so I did.

[tanyev]

12. Nose cut off; face spited. Unreal.

[RussBLib]

3. too bad we have to listen to all the whining

and the lying

[JoePhilly]

5. I wonder is its that high on DU.

For many here, the ACA was the worst thing ever.

I wonder how this poll would do on DU now.

[SoapBox]

11. Worst thing ever? Really?

I guess I missed all that.

I do remember all the stories for those that were desperate for healthcare and got it because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

[JoePhilly]

13. yes ... worst thing ever ...

... see, getting the ACA is not only going to kill us all because it lacks a PO ... its also going to prevent Single payer from ever happening because enough people won't be dying.

Any one who has been on DU since Obama took office has heard these claims.

They have died down now that the ACA is a success ... but occasionally, some one will throw them out again.

See here on DU, you make claims about how awful something like the ACA is going to be ... and then forget it when those predictions do not come true.

[yellowcanine]

16. Why do they hate America????