New poll shows Republicans overwhelmingly support "Obamacare"

[Riot]

provisions - as long as you don't call it "Obamacare".

Republicans support Obama’s health reforms — as long as his name isn’t on them

By Greg Sargent

The new Reuters-Ipsos poll finds that Obamacare remains deeply unpopular; 56 percent of Americans oppose the law, versus only 44 percent who favor it. The poll also finds that strong majorities of Americans favor the individual provisions in the law -- the hated individual mandate excepted, of course.

What’s particularly interesting about this poll is that solid majorities of Republicans favor most of the law’s main provisions, too.

I asked Ipsos to send over a partisan breakdown of the data. Key points:

* Eighty percent of Republicans favor “creating an insurance pool where small businesses and uninsured have access to insurance exchanges to take advantage of large group pricing benefits.” That’s backed by 75 percent of independents.

* Fifty-seven percent of Republicans support “providing subsidies on a sliding scale to aid individuals and families who cannot afford health insurance.” That’s backed by 67 percent of independents.

* Fifty-four percent of Republicans favor “requiring companies with more than 50 employees to provide insurance for their employers.” That’s backed by 75 percent of independents.

* Fifty two percent of Republicans favor “allowing children to stay on parents insurance until age 26.” That’s backed by 69 percent of independents.

* Seventy eight percent of Republicans support “banning insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions; 86 percent of Republicans favor “banning insurance companies from cancelling policies because a person becomes ill.” Those are backed by 82 percent of independents and 87 percent of independents.

* One provision that isn’t backed by a majority of Republicans: The one “expanding Medicaid to families with incomes less than $30,000 per year.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...E51V_blog.html

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Originally Posted by Riot

provisions - as long as you don't call it "Obamacare".

And how many pages did it take to write those? If that's all it was everyone would be for it.

[timmgirvan]

BFD

[AlreadyHome]

Republicans are waking up and smelling the coffee... about time if you cant beat Obama join him.....

4More years

its not politics Its The American Way

[Danzig]

can't read the original poll-but every poll i've seen says most people are against obamacare.
but i'm sure it's similar to 'x number of months with job growth'. sounds good, til you understand that we're still in quite a lot of trouble jobs wise, and haven't made up for jobs lost-let alone kept up with new people entering the work force.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

can't read the original poll-but every poll i've seen says most people are against obamacare.

Except the one posted in this thread.

That you didn't read

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

Wrong

[Riot]

Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

Wrong

No. Right. The poll, posted in the first post, shows that if you call health benefits "Obamacare", people are against it. If you list the provisions without calling it "Obamacare", people are overwhelmingly in favor.