What percentage of those who were crowing a week or so ago about the PPACA’s favorability going up will take the latest Gallup poll’s finding that its approval had gone down seriously? My guess is that it’s down the memory hole time.
What percentage of those who were crowing a week or so ago about the PPACA’s favorability going up will take the latest Gallup poll’s finding that its approval had gone down seriously? My guess is that it’s down the memory hole time.
It’s all about one’s perspective, grounded in their ideology, creating the disposition of how a lens focuses on or distorts a measurement’s image. However, now it’s the R’s who are crowing, which IMO, is too premature and could do as quick of a turnabout. After all, the state of all political favor/disfavor is drastically effected by a feather-light touch of the fickle finger of fate.
*crickets*
I was surprised at the uptick, not surprised by the downtick and to be honest bored with the whole thing because I don’t think in the end this will matter very much. The only way forward is forward, we’re not going back to denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, we’re not losing the 26 year-old buy-in or the Medicaid expansion. The principal that health care is a right is established in people’s minds, so, whatever happens it’s in iteration of Obamacare going forward.
And like I said: it’s saving me thousands of dollars with much greater security.
Michael,
Sometimes I can’t tell if your comments are nothing more than nonchalant posturing, or if that’s how you are actually wired.
However, which ever way it is, I think you are going to be in for a rude awakening, sometime in the near future.
@michael reynolds
… health care is a right …
Health insurance does not equal health care. For many people, a high deductible means no health care. I realize that you have $4k, $8k, or $12k laying around, but most people do not.
… saving me thousands of dollars …
Which is not going to help anybody without health insurance. Your concern about the poor is as hollow as your concern for the poor, and spare me your sad tale of woe. Having a “black friend” does not allow you to be a racist, and growing up or being poor does not allow you to use the poor.
I actually need Michael’s help. Because I know what I know, and what I don’t. And I’m not a writer. See, few people know this but I got a call from Obama a week ago. A sort of cry from the wilderness. I told him “blame Bush” had run its course. “Damned Republicans” wouldn’t resonate because of the party line vote.
So I’m the guy who told him to try the buffalo, er, excuse, uh, “explanation” that the insurance companies were the problem. Well, that’s going down in flames. When I mentioned actually exhibiting leadership and taking responsibility……….well, this is a family website.
I could use a shoulder to lean on, but quite frankly I’m not sure I want the assignment now. I asked Obama if I’d get attribution and he just looked at me and said “What. you didn’t build that!”
Bill and Hill did call, though. Some inquiry about the proper placement between the fourth and fifth posterior rib…………..
It only gets worse….
United Health, the Nation’s largest provider of privately managed Medicare Advantage plans, has dropped thousands of doctors from it’s networks in recent weeks citing “substantial funding pressure from the federal government.”