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The country is fairly evenly divided on the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act. According to a Pew Research poll 40 percent of people disapprove of the ruling, while 36 percent approve. Not surprisingly there is a huge partisan divide: Republicans strongly disapprove and Democrats strongly approve of it. A plurality of Independents, 42 percent, approve, while 32 percent disapprove. From Pew:
The Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll found similar results, although it found slightly more people approving the Court’s decision than disapproving. According to the Kaiser poll, 47 percent approve of the decision and only 43 percent disapprove. It also found a huge partisan divide.
Popular support for the law seems only slightly improved by the Court declaring it Constitutional, according to the Kaiser poll. It found that 41 percent view the law unfavorably and 41 view it favorably. While this is technically an improvement over last month when it was 44 percent unfavorable vs 37 percent favorable, the change is within the poll’s natural fluctuation. This current favorable rating of the law is roughly in line with the average over the year in this poll.
Not surprisingly, it seems instead of the Court strongly influencing people’s opinions about the law, people’s previous opinions about the law mainly determined their opinions about the ruling.
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The nation would not be “split” if the nation understood what really took place in this ruling. The left vs right view, the liberal vs conservative spin on the decision is being shoved down Lady Liberty’s throat, and ours….
It is “corporate brown shirting,” where media takes in garbage from political operatives and regurgitation of political talking points ensues. People blame people for their problems and the corporations run off to the banks, smiling from ear to ear while the Indians fight each other for a few remaining rotting buffalo carcasses taken out by a some aristocrat using live Buffalo to sight in his Springfield rifle while on a train heading back east, or a couple small pox infected blankets on a cold winter night?
I doubt very many people liked or dislike ACA because of their opinion on its constitutionality. Rather, they based their opinion on constitutionality on whether they liked it or not.
Why would the SCOTUS ruling change anybody’s mind?
I don’t like it any better now than I did two weeks ago.
The Poll says 42% of Independents Disapprove and only 32% Approve, but the article has those numbers reversed. I think if people looked at the SCOTUS ruling without any bias, they would have to say the the ruling was a rewriting of the ACA law. Also by changing the Mandate to a Tax they made the law Constitutional, but the Tax can still be held to be Unconstitutional in the future, but first someone has to pay the tax, and then file a case.
Thats because you are an intelligent methodical individual. Liberals think this way and don’t realize how stupid people really are. The Republicans figured this out along time ago. Thats why they are winning. Liberals believe that people are capable of intelligent reasoning and in time will figure things out but unfortunately this is not the case. That is why the Republicans keep repeating bogus ridiculous statements like “we are losing our freedom, and “the ACA will be the biggest tax hike in the history of this country on the middle class”. The voters will pick up on it. Have you ever watched the background people when McConnell or Behner hold a press conference. There eyes shift around from one person to another and they do all they can to keep from laughing.
Agreed — they would be preparing for civil war instead.
President Obama — as made crystal clear by Greenwald, Silber, Taiibbi and a host of others — always intended on house-wiggering 50+ million uninsured to Big Pharma’s brand of debt-slavery/bankruptcy on the installment plan … and he needed to wring a Dead Scott decision out of Justice Roberts in order to do it.
Single payer would’ve foreclosed on that …
And that’s why it had to be stopped …
The repugs speak in visceral frames, while the Dems talk about “bending the cost curve.” But I don’t believe it’s a case of the Dems just not getting it, they’re just playing a role. Good cop/Bad cop, or something like Frat Boy vs The Professor.
The narrative is “health care” but it should be called “disease-care”.
For profit medicine requires that you get sick & stay sick, so that you keep returning for treatment, procedures & those “miracle” drugs.
Nine political operatives, whose jurisprudence is that corporations always win, does not constitute a legitimate court.