More Americans continue to say that President Obama’s health care law will help the poor and the uninsured rather than their own families or the country overall, the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll has found.
Combined with the survey results released Monday, these attitudes capture the tenuous political situation facing Obama and the law’s Democratic supporters: While the earlier results found that only about two-fifths of Americans want to repeal Obamacare, these findings show that most adults, particularly whites, view it largely as a transfer program that will mostly benefit the poor rather than the nation broadly.
Still, like the results released Monday showing no meaningful uptick in support for repeal, these findings point more toward durability than change in assessments of the law since July despite its stormy, and at times chaotic, rollout. CONT.
Ron Brownstein, National Journal