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Public Support for ObamaCare Continues to Wane
August 19, 2010
Just ahead of November elections, even more Americans are expressing opposition to the Democrats and their devastating health care bill.
Gallup is reporting only 38% of Americans are satisfied with the job Democrats are doing; a generic ballot poll by Rasmussen Reports finds Republicans hold a seven-point lead ahead of Democrats.
Registered voters say their chief concerns heading into the election season are the economy and health care respectively. Fifty-one percent of respondents in a Fox News poll said health care will be “extremely” important in considering their vote. The same poll found 42% of Americans think the bill needs to be changed; another 36 percent would repeal it all together.
“Repeal and Replace” – the GOP’s measure that would get rid of ObamaCare and replace it with common-sense reform, like rooting out fraud and frivolous law suits – gained momentum this week as Rep. Harry Herger filed a petition to force a floor vote on his Reform Americans Can Afford Act of 2010. Herger’s measure is backed by House Minority Leader, John Boehner, Minority Whip, Eric Cantor, and ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee, Dave Camp.
Whatever the outcome of Herger’s measure, recent state-initiatives, like the approval of Prop C in Missouri, illustrate just how frustrated the country is with the Democrats and their health care reforms.
“[T]here may well be no single initiative as unpopular as the administration’s health care reform bill,” Douglas Schoen writes in Politico. “The administration seems to have decided that the widespread public backlash against the health care reform bill… is the result of their failure to communicate the bill’s benefits effectively.”
Indeed Harry Reid told the Wall Street Journal recently, “The more people learn about this bill, the more they like it.” The latest polls suggest the contrary.
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