Why Obamacare Isn’t Losing Popularity Even After A Month Of Really Bad Press

[Bill USA]

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/11/06/2900771/obamacare-public-opinion-press/

A new poll released on Wednesday finds that uninsured Americans are increasingly interested in Obamacare, despite the ongoing technological problems plaguing the websites that allow them to sign up for health insurance plans. The Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 42 percent of Americans who currently lack insurance intend to enroll in a plan under Obamacare — a slight uptick from last month, when 37 percent of that population indicated they wanted to enroll. Overall public support for the health reform law also rose from 44 percent to 47 percent.

And that’s just the latest poll to find that Obamacare isn’t losing ground among the public, despite a month of headlines that have bemoaned its exchanges as a total disaster and warned Americans that it may cause them to get booted from their current insurance plan. At the end of last month, a Gallup poll found that Americans were “slightly more positive” about the health reform law after three weeks of its rocky roll-out than they were right before the exchanges launched. Around the same time, both a Washington Post poll and a Pew Research Center poll found that public opinion about Obamacare hadn’t taken a nosedive despite the frustrating issues with the website glitches.

In all of that polling, respondents tend to agree that it’s been a bad roll-out. So why isn’t support for the law completely tanking?

One of the Ipsos pollsters, Chris Jackson, offered up a plausible theory: Americans are finally having a personal experience with health reform. “The launch of the exchanges, that’s the first real world event for a lot of people,” he told Reuters. “There’s been this sense that once people got familiar with it, public opinion would start to move in its direction.”

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[Tarheel_Dem]

1. Could it be that the American people aren't as vacuous as the beltway media/punditry?

[Bill USA]

2. maybe this shows that people are paying less and less attention to Corporate M$M...that's important

to the future of democaracy in AMerica. THe M$M are really just disseminating Disinformation. All the GOP toadies that man M$M seem to have grown up watching Jerry Springer. Seems like that is the 'theme' of M$M reporting... as long as it's sensational and seems to support GOP idiocy... 'Go with it!".

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. What's even more frightening than the corporate sponsored networks taking the lead of Fox....

it appears that increasingly, my beloved NPR is doing the same thing. Some days it's unbearable, and they are referencing fringey folks like Hannity & Limbaugh more & more, on the airwaves paid for by the taxpayers. It's Armed Forces Radio, right here in our own country.