One-third of Americans unaware ObamaCare, ACA are the same

[FriendlyFire]

1/3rd of Americans are about to find out the hard way
Thanks Obama

Am actually suprised that 28% of Republicans dont know this compared with avg 35% overall
I thought that Republican propaganda and misinformation would be crafted to target their Republican voters, but it seems that the general public has been misinformed. Probably not helped by Democrats whom could not come up with effective counter arguments

One-third of Americans unaware ObamaCare, ACA are the same

More than one-third of Americans are unaware that ObamaCare and the Affordable Care Act are the same law.

The figure comes from a new poll by Morning Consult that found 35 percent of Americans do not know ObamaCare is another label — made popular by the GOP — used to describe the Affordable Care Act, enacted under former President Barack Obama in 2010.

About 17 percent of Americans polled thought they were two different laws, and 18 percent said the didn't know whether they were the same policy or two different things.

The New York Times published the results from the survey on Tuesday. Morning Consult conducted the survey in late January with a sample of 1,890 adults.

Sixty-one percent said they knew that some Americans would lose Medicaid and health insurance coverage if the law were repealed with no replacement. But 45 percent of those polled did not know the law may be repealed soon.

Republican lawmakers are preparing a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare as one of their first moves under the Trump administration.

Speaker Paul RyanPaul RyanWhite House beefs up legislative affairs team GOP talking security for ObamaCare protests: report One-third of Americans unaware ObamaCare, ACA are the same MORE (R-Wis.) doubled down on plans to replace Obama’s signature healthcare law on Tuesday, saying it would be done within the year.

However, President Trump, who has promised a simultaneous replacement plan, said in an interview over the weekend the plan won’t come until next year.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-roo...a-were-same-law
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/...able-care-act-are-the-same.html?smid=tw-share

 

[timtofly]

Republicans are not yet fully integrated into Marxist ideolgy.

 

[warpus]

If Obama really cared about the American people, he would have named it "The Obamacare Act"

 

[onejayhawk]

I always thought that a law deserved its proper name, even a trainwreck, designed to fail, piece of steam dung like ACA.

J

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Many bills are poorly or ironically named. In Canada we have one called the "Fair Elections Act". The reality is that it was designed to effectively disenfranchise the segments of the population who A. Tend not to vote Conservative; and B. Have more difficulty coming up with the acceptable IDs, proof of residency, and actually getting to the polls. The provisions made for disabled voters were never publicized and are buried waaaay down in the Elections Canada website.

 

[warpus]

In the U.S. they have one named the "Helping out poor people Act", which increases taxes on things poor people are more likely to buy.

That doesn't actually exist, but that's how a lot of these acts are named it seems

 

[EgonSpengler]

I wish I could say this surprised me, but it doesn't.

 

[warpus]

I bet all those people are going to blame Obama anyway, after they lose their Obamacare

 

[Hygro]

If this all happened back in the 90s it would have been 2/3s, because 1/3 wouldn't have known about either. I'm surprised we're doing this well.

 

[BvBPL]

Not a surprise. This statistic has been around for a while. After realizing how many CFCers didn’t know that the ACA and Obamacare are the same thing, this doesn’t surprise me at all.

What does kind of surprise me is that where about 35% of people didn’t know the difference between the two, 45% of those surveyed didn’t know that if Obamacare was repealed that the ACA would be repealed.

That means 10% of those surveyed knew that the ACA is Obamacare, but thought that if Obamacare was repealed the ACA would not be.

 

[Gori the Grey]

What I'd like to know is how many people currently benefiting from the Affordable Care Act voted for the repeal of Obamacare in the last election.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

What I'd like to know is how many people currently benefiting from the Affordable Care Act voted for the repeal of Obamacare in the last election.

Just a wild guess, but you don't really want to know. I'm pretty sure you would actually be appalled if you knew.

 

[BvBPL]

None of this would have happened if they kept with Romneycare.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Yeah, we really should have found a way to get a national version of Romneycare.

@tim: yes, I really would like to know, for two reasons. First, it would give some measure of what percentage of the population is susceptible to certain kinds of propaganda. Second, it would give some measure of the size group that may quickly become disaffected with Trump and the Republicans.

 

[CivCube]

As long as they keep the government out of my Medicare!

 

[FriendlyFire]

What happens when Republicans find out ? They will blame Obama and vote Republican again
Iam sure the GOP machine will be able to message and divert blame again, bring out the some wedge issue in time for election

53% of Republicans don’t know repealing Obamacare repeals the Medicaid expansion
What happens when they find out?

The pollsters dug into more specific consequences of repeal, too. Among Republicans, only 47 percent knew that the Medicaid expansion and insurance subsidies would be rolled back — 29 percent said Medicaid and the subsidies would be unaffected, and another 24 percent weren’t sure. So fully 53 percent don’t know or don’t believe that repealing Obamacare would repeal its coverage expansion, too.

Polls like this are sensitive to changes in wording and can’t tell us how respondents really interpret the question, so it’s worth being cautious when reading the results. Perhaps the Republicans who assumed the Medicaid and insurance subsidies would survive under repeal were assuming repeal would include a full replacement, too. That’s certainly an impression Republicans have encouraged, even if it’s not one they have backed up through policy.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/8/14536074/obamacare-aca-polling-republicans