Americans’ attitudes on Obamacare have long been paradoxical. Polls have generally shown lackluster support for the overall law while at the same time finding wide support for many of its individual provisions. That dynamic has been a chief challenge for Republicans hoping to repeal the law, and the House GOP’s […] Read more »
How the New Health Care Bill Confirms the Asymmetry of the Parties
Matt Grossmann and I write a fair amount about health care in our book Asymmetric Politics because it’s a political issue that represents a particularly effective example of our main thesis: that the Democratic Party is organized as a coalition of social groups while the Republican Party is controlled by […] Read more »
CNN/ORC poll: Public splits on revoking individual mandate
Americans are sharply divided on revoking Obamacare’s mandate that individuals obtain health insurance coverage, according to a new CNN/ORC poll, a change that’s a key provision of a newly-released Republican plan to repeal and replace the 2010 law. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »
The rise of Obamacare: Why is the ACA so popular?
Nobel-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman famously pioneered the idea that people tend to fear loss twice as much as they prefer gains. Loss aversion, he said, is when people feel the pain of losing something more than they feel the pleasure of gaining something else, which can leave some wary of […] Read more »
Obamacare surge is about knowledge
52 percent to 43 percent Americans support the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). When we did the same poll three months ago, it was 44 percent support and 49 percent opposition. We saw no substantial change to the support for the underlying components of Obamacare: coverage for pre-existing conditions, coverage […] Read more »
Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs
As lawmakers debate the future of the country’s health care system and outline plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, much of the current debate surrounds how to change or eliminate the health insurance marketplaces developed under the ACA where individuals eligible for financial assistance could compare plans […] Read more »