It’s easy to think that people are “in it for themselves” as the saying goes, with their policy and political preferences motivated by narrow self-interest. But decades-old research shows that this often is not the case – and a new analysis we’ve conducted of attitudes about Obamacare backs it up.
We looked after hearing a comment at a polling conference last week echoing others we’ve noticed about the Affordable Care Act – that the law lacks broad public support because people think it’s harming their own health care or increasing their costs. When policy impacts get personal, the thinking goes, look out.
Not so fast. CONT.
Gary Langer & Damla Ergun, ABC News