Summary

Republican increasingly support for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

According to a new Gallup poll, 19% of Republicans approve of Obamacare, the highest approval number since the poll began in 2012.

Additionally, 32% of Republicans believe the government has a responsibility to ensure health care coverage for all Americans, a significant jump from the 22% who said the same in 2020.

  • @T00l_shed
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    992 months ago

    Funny that they voted against it.

    • @[email protected]
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      482 months ago

      I forget which Behind the Bastards episode first put me on to this but man, there’s such a long history of people in the US killing or trying to kill good projects because it helps the “wrong” people

      • @T00l_shed
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        172 months ago

        🎵it’s the American waaaaay🎵

    • @pntha
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      62 months ago

      tbf i would expect a progressive party to vote against a policy that 81% of their constituents didn’t agree with

      • Pennomi
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        182 months ago

        If Trump actually made a better plan, I’d support it. A good bill is a good bill, no matter who presents it.

        That being said I don’t think it’s likely.

        • chingadera
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          82 months ago

          I will eat a microwaved dog turd on a livestream if this happens.

    • @kmartburrito
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      92 months ago

      They’re going to spend the next four years breaking things and stuffing money into any place that will hold it. They don’t know how to build jack shit.

      • @Archer
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        12 months ago

        What’s ironic is that stable governments protect rich people’s money. Unstable governments let rich people get killed by mobs and then seize their assets

    • @takeda
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      72 months ago

      They had multiple shots. They could easily have bill that replaces or worth something else, but they instead opted to remove it without alternative.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      They have concepts of a plan. The real plan will be out in 2 weeks, give or take. If you ask about it, the timer starts over.

  • Jesus
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    282 months ago

    Some people believe “Trump fixed it,” because he said that.

    (He didn’t. He actually made it harder to enroll.)

    • @randon31415
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      122 months ago

      He made it harder to enroll for those people. Less people on the Obamacare, more for the right people

  • @Bonesince1997
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    232 months ago

    These people don’t know what’s good for them. Listen to terrible sources. And so we all suffer. I wish I could separate from them.

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    2 months ago

    Likely the main reason this is rising is because it’s no longer a propaganda talking point. Because Trump has so many other that are more attention-grabbing.

    I believe that we’ve flipped and propaganda now has greater weight on public opinion than factual reporting. And I think this rebound shows some data of the effect of propaganda, evidenced by factual reality (people like having healthcare more than not, shockingly) creeping to fill the space left by receding propaganda.

    We’ll never have a scientifically-sound study that clearly measures the poll effects of propaganda because of definitional and exposure unreliability. So inferential data like this is fascinating.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      Why can’t we have some benign entity propagandize objective reality and data-backed solutions for the common good?? Is that not the obvious solution?

      Alt-right brain rot is terminal now.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        That’s the only practical solution. Education would have been the answer, but that ship has sailed.

    • @AbidanYre
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      262 months ago

      They’re the ones who gave it that name.

      • @[email protected]
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        282 months ago

        so they know what they’re supposed to hate.

        a poll asking about ‘affordable care act’ only, with no mention of ‘obamacare’ will get significantly different responses than one that does reference president obama.

        • @BadmanDan
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          52 months ago

          That really shows just how childish the Republican base is. Liberals aren’t lying when they say these people only listen to buzzwords.

        • @Zexks
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          32 months ago

          It should forever be referenced as “The ACA (Obamacare)”. Never let anyone forget what they did.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      22 months ago

      This^

      A lot of polling found support for the ACA jumped when it was referred to by its actual name and not OBamacare

  • @PugJesus
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    92 months ago

    As they vote for repealing Obamacare.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    Thanks Obama, for real though I’m on board with repeal and replace, cause this aint shit.

    But I’m not aboard with “Repeal and bring back pre-existing conditions!”, but that seems to be all the Greedy Old Pricks have got up their sleeves.

    • @BadmanDan
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      42 months ago

      People forget what the originally Obamacare was supposed to be. Republicans are the ones who watered it down. If they replace it, it will be with nothing.

  • @someguy3
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    42 months ago

    It’s gonna be gone right? Are there any senators expected to want to keep it?

  • @Today
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    -12 months ago

    We’re so lucky Trump saved it from…