Poll: 47% of Americans disapprove of Obama health care law

[AllGold]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5...ontentBody

As the Supreme Court embarks on three days of historic arguments over President Obama's health care law - two years after the law was enacted - Americans remain skeptical about the legislation.

A CBS News/New York Times poll shows 47 percent of Americans disapprove of the president's Affordable Care Act, including 30 percent who strongly disapprove.

Of course there was no polling on what percentage of Americans have absolutely no clue about what the Obama health care law really does.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

The results also needs to split up into the people who think it should be stronger, from the ones that don't like it just because the Democrats pushed it this time versus the Republicans.

Pollster: "So why are you against this bill, when the Republicans put forward a very similar outline created by the Heritage Foundation in 1993?"
Polled: "Umm... oww! I sprained my brain."

[decay]

I don't think most of the politicians who voted for or against it even read the whole thing.

How could most Americans understand it? Wealthy lobbies that wouldn't benefit from it are paying millions to make sure we don't, spreading as much fear as possible.

Do we even have a chance?

[GGD]

I wonder which specific parts they object to most.

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/index.html

[RgrF]

They've been lied to and then lied to some more, it's a wonder that the other 54% don't.

[Dennis S]

Socialism!

[Acer]

I'll wager that most people like the provisions of the legislation, except for the provision that pays for it.

[cbelt3]

100% of politicians who voted for it did not understand the whole thing. Ditto about 100% of voters.

I tried. I really tried. I spent perhaps 20 hours trying to figure the damn thing out, but it's like trying to understand spaghetti "C##" code that's commented in Chinese. And I don't read Chinese, OR C##.

[August West]

Apparently, the poll's only question,

Question wrote:
From what you've heard or read, do you approve or disapprove of the health care law that was enacted in 2010?

Given that the poll split strongly on party lines, I'm going to have to favor RrgF's take on this one.

[cbelt3]

In other words, whether the Kool-Aid is Grape or Cherry, it's still Kool-Aid. :biggrin: