Despite the fact that the Democrats were quite determined in their efforts to portray our American healthcare system as being so badly broken that it essentially needed to be replaced from the ground up, many Americans have never agreed with that premise. And now a recent polls would seem to indicate that a majority of Americans remain convinced that their family will be much worse off under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. They also seem to think that it would be much better to go back to the pre-Obamacare health care system. It was a Fox News poll released Wednesday that found while 26 percent of voters say their health care situation will be better under the new law while twice as many, 53 percent, say that it will be worse. And then, as always, we have 13 percent who actually say that it won’t make any difference.
Now I'm sure that it'll come as no big surprise to anyone to find out that almost all Republicans, or 85 percent, are convinced that they will be far worse off under Obamacare. What does comes as sort of a surprise, at least to me, is the fact that just over half of independents, or 51 percent, actually agree with the Republicans. I've always thought of independents as being folks afraid to call themselves Democrats. But what comes as no surprise whatsoever, is the fact that nearly half of all Democrats, or 48 percent, expect that they'll better off, while only about a quarter, 24 percent, agree with those who feel that they will be worse off. Young voters and seniors are most pessimistic about Obamacare, as well they should be. Majorities of those under age 35 and those 65+ think things will be much worse under the 2010 health care law.
Which, I suppose, helps to explain why a 56-percent majority wants to go back to the health care system that was in place in 2009, while only 34 percent think that we should stick with the new law. Three in ten, or 30 percent for those too stupid to figure it out, Democrats would rather go back to the pre-Obamacare system. That view climbs sharply to 55 percent among independents and sharper still, to 85 percent, among Republicans. The desire to go back to the 2009 system is widespread. Majorities of higher and lower income groups feel that way, as do men, women, voters with and without college degrees, and voters across all age groups. So despite the fact that Barry now has some high-powered PR firm out there trying to sell the benefits of Obamacare to anyone who will listen, most people aren't buying the propaganda.
The new poll also asks voters why the economy is not doing better under Barry "Almighty’s" leadership. Forty-one percent actually think that Barry "Almighty" has had some good ideas, but too few of them have actually been passed. That’s down 11 percentage points from 52 percent who felt that way in 2011. Forty-nine percent say Barry’s ideas have been bad and far too many of them have been implemented, and that's up from 37 percent two years ago. By a 14-point margin, independents say Barry’s ideas on the economy have been bad. That’s a reversal from 2011 when they thought his ideas were good by a 15-point margin. So that's a pretty good swing. Again I'm surprised to see such a swing among those who call themselves independents, because most folks I know who refer to themselves as independent, are essentially Democrats.
And how do voters feel about the sequester? By a 61-29 percent margin, they think the automatic across-the-board cuts that took effect March 1 were a bad way for the president and Congress to deal with the country’s budget problems. Majorities of Republicans (67 percent), independents (61 percent) and Democrats (57 percent) all agree it was a bad way to handle the issue. And I would agree, but only up to a point. Because when you have Democrats who absolutely refuse to agree to any kind of spending cuts, no matter how trivial, the options remaining are very few in number. And something had to be done in order to cut even the measly $44 Billion that was brought about because of sequester. It doesn't take brain surgeon to be able to recognize the fact that we simply cannot go on spending the way we are.
And so it would appear that most Americans remain pretty firmly opposed to Barry's signature piece of legislation that has succeeded in essentially doing nothing more than to guarantee that good medical care will be much harder to come by, and they also seem to be less than impressed with his piss-poor handling of the economy. Neither of which seems to bother Barry all that much, as he doesn't have to worry about another election and, short of impeachment, he's not going anywhere for at least the next three years. Short of gains in the Senate that would make it veto-proof, Obamacare is here to stay at least until we have a Republican in the White House and GOP majorities in both Houses of Congress. But, having said that, if we had some GOP leadership in the House who possessed some balls, we could work on killing funding for obamination.
As far as the economy goes, you'd think that after a hundred years, or so, of evidence that makes it very apparent that the socialist approach doesn't work, Barry wouldn't still be trying to prove that it will work. He's managed to do nothing more than to take an already bad economic situation and make it much worse. He's added $7 Trillion to our national debt, and for what? We have nearly 10 million fewer people in the workforce that we had on day one of his first term, and a real unemployment rate that remains very firmly in double-digits. As well, we have more people than ever before on some form of government subsistence. And because of his rather perverse spending habits, the credit rating for our country was lowered for the first time in our history. People are tired, but I guess not tired enough to have elected somebody else in 2012.
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