42 Percent of Americans Do Not Know Affordable Care Act is law...

[Nbadan]

...12 percent think its been recalled by Congress and 7 percent think it was overturned by the Supreme Court...

Poll: Many Americans uninformed about health care overhaul, some don't know it's law
Source: NBC News


As the Obama administration girds for “glitches and bumps” along the path to full implementation of the health-care law, a new poll indicates many Americans are still unclear about the details of the new law and, in some cases, unaware it’s actually law of the land.

A whopping 42 percent of Americans do not know that the Affordable Care Act is, in fact, law. Included in that 42 percent -- 12 percent believe it has been repealed by Congress, 7 percent think the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it, and 23 percent are unsure of its status, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll.

For the record, no portion of the law has been repealed; and the Supreme Court upheld it last summer in a 5-4 decision. The law continues to be viewed more negatively than positively, with just 35 percent saying they have a favorable view and 40 percent saying they have an unfavorable one. But the prolonged implementation, complexity of the law, and messaging by opponents has aided in the confusion. The administration is starting to push back, beginning with the president.

“It’s still a big undertaking,” President Barack Obama acknowledged Tuesday in a press conference at the White House. "And what we’re doing is making sure that every single day we are constantly trying to hit our marks so that it will be in place. ... Even if we do everything perfectly, there will still be glitches and bumps. ... And that’s pretty much true of every government program that’s ever been set up."

Read more: http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/30/17988277-poll-many-americans-uninformed-about-health-care-overhaul-some-dont-know-its-law?lite

[Wild Cobra]

Just goes to show how stupid the average voter can be.

[CosmicCowboy]

Just wait till everyone's insurance renews next year. Anyone that currently has insurance is gonna hate it when their premiums go up 40%.

[George Gervin's Afro]

Just goes to show how stupid the average voter can be.

anyone else get the irony with this post?

[boutons_deux]

Doesn't really matter for the already health-insured, but it does matter for those who are the ACA target, the uninsured.

Obamacare Could Cover More People At Less Cost
HAUSMAN: At first, it cost about $8,000 a year on average to care for a patient, but for those who stayed in the program at least three years, costs dropped by 50 percent. In California, statisticians saw a similar trend in the Healthy San Francisco program. It started six years ago, funded by the city, county, local employers and donors. Thirty-seven clinics and medical practices provided care at little or no cost to about 49,000 people who were allowed to choose the medical home that appealed to them.

HAUSMAN: Program director Tangerine Brigham says Healthy San Francisco saw costs decline an average of $540 per patient per year. Many of the patients have chronic conditions - diabetes, high blood pressure, congestive heart failure or asthma - but Brigham says seeing a medical professional on a regular basis keeps them out of the hospital and emergency room, expensive places for care.

HAUSMAN: And the program gets good reviews. An independent survey showed 94 percent of Healthy San Francisco's patients were satisfied with their care. VCC's Sheryl Garland hopes to collaborate with Healthy San Francisco on future studies and to release updated statistics on Virginia Coordinated Care this summer.

http://www.npr.org/2013/04/30/180116791/obamacare-could-cover-more-people-at-less-cost

[boutons_deux]

Just wait till everyone's insurance renews next year. Anyone that currently has insurance is gonna hate it when their premiums go up 40%.

... a higher probability in Repug states and Repug state insurance regulators, where Repugs love to fuck over people for political points, blaming their fuckovers on the Dems, while enriching corporations,.

[CosmicCowboy]

... a higher probability in Repug states and Repug state insurance regulators, where Repugs love to fuck over people for political points, blaming their fuckovers on the Dems, while enriching corporations,.

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[boutons_deux]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Paris_Tuileries_Garden_Facepalm_statue.jpg/300px-Paris_Tuileries_Garden_Facepalm_statue.jpg

Every Repug controlled state has refused Medicaid expansion and federal funds, although a couple have realized, in spite of the ideologlical spiting of all things federal, that they were screwing the state govt as well as screwing the poor and needy.

[boutons_deux]

Most Americans remain in the dark on immigration billWASHINGTON – For all the attention given so far to efforts in Congress to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, nearly four in 10 Americans say they don’t know enough about it to have an opinion, and fewer than one-quarter could correctly answer a couple of basic questions about it, a new poll shows.


The survey, by the Pew Research Center (http://www.people-press.org/2013/05/01/division-uncertainty-over-new-immigration-bill/), underscores an important fact in the immigration debate – most of the public has not yet tuned in. A bipartisan proposal negotiated by eight senators (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-senate-immigration-20130416%2C0%2C3690780.story) has gathered considerable strength, and Senate debate is scheduled to start next week, but because so many Americans remain unengaged, predictions about the bill’s fate almost certainly remain premature.

Just more than half of those surveyed said either that they did not think the immigration bill would have much impact one way or the other on the economy or that they didn’t know what impact it would have. Among those who felt the bill would have an economic impact, opinions were almost equally divided about whether the impact would be good or bad.


http://touch.latimes.com/#section/609/article/p2p-75741649/


and of course the Repugs' official position is that they don't GAF about what Human-Americans want or value. So the ignorance and/or don't care of most H-As plays right into the hands of the Repugs and tea baggers.

[coyotes_geek]

Most Americans remain in the dark on pretty much everything involving politics. Even the ones who claim they pay attention to politics.

[DMC]

A much higher percentage think an invisible man is watching them from a mysterious realm in the sky.

[boutons_deux]

A much higher percentage think an invisible man is watching them from a mysterious realm in the sky.

Christianity As State Religion Supported By One-Third Of Americans

The new survey finds that 34 percent of adults would favor establishing Christianity as the official state religion in their own state, while 47 percent would oppose doing so. Thirty-two percent said that they would favor a constitutional amendment making Christianity the official religion of the United States, with 52 percent saying they were opposed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/06/christianity-state-religion_n_3022255.html


Half of Americans reject evolution, believe in creationism:

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/americans-reject-evolution-creationism-poll-article-1.1090596#ixzz2S7z7JM7K


and then there's a huge percentage (any number would be huge) that wants to replace the Constitution with the Bible and 10 Commandments.

Along with irreversible loss of the Class War by the 99%, financial inequality, the authoritarian security state, and corruption/control of govt by United Corporations of America and the 1% that have disenfranchised the 99%, the US democracy, never solid, always fragile, is clearly, unstoppably in permanent decline. Will it survive until its 300th anniversary?