Wednesday Open Thread [12.18.13]
Here is a great link to track ACA (Obamacare) enrollment figures. Thinks are progressing great as compared to Romneycare in Massachusetts. Remember, in Massachusetts, many did not enroll until the imposition of the penalty.
Meanwhile, a new poll from the ABC News and the Washington Post shows that approval of Obamacare has rebounded from the worse of the flawed rollout and broken website media hysteria in late October and November. Now that the website is working, the approval numbers are back to where they were before:
46 percent of Americans support it, with 49 percent opposed. Opposition is down from a record 57 percent last month amid the new system’s troubled rollout.
Greg Sargent dives deeper into these new numbers:
I’ve got some new numbers from the Post polling team that shed a bit of light on why the law’s approval has enjoyed something of a rebound. The short version: It originally cratered because of a big drop among young people (aged 18-29), moderates, and independents, and also because groups who were already most hostile to the law turned on it even more fiercely.
The rebound in support is driven mostly by these comebacks, which are the largest changes our poll recorded:
• Among people under 30, support for the law has bounced back by 20 points, dropping sharply to 36 percent in November and returning to 56 percent now. (There has been a ton of chatter about young voters supposedly abandoning the law; we’ll see if this new poll causes anyone to revisit that assessment.)
• Among independents, support has come back by nine points, dropping to 36 percent in November and returning to 45 percent now.
• Among moderates, support has come back by 10 points, dropping to 44 percent in November and returning to 54 percent now.
we have all heard of this years lie of the year from Barack Obama.
But here is a bigger lie, and the liberal media let him get away with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNZEMu-u6nc
So rustydils, third grade. Long and hard or just give it up????
And look, Democrats make it a clean sweep of the top state-wide races.
All sort of good… but the very people who the law is supposed to help are mostly ignorant about what the law does and how it could help them, in particular.
“Uninsured Skeptical of Health Care Law in Poll”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/us/uninsured-americans-are-about-as-skeptical-of-health-care-law-as-the-insured-poll-finds.html
The strangest viewpoint shared by many is the fear that their health care will become worse if they buy insurance. How is that possible???
What this tells us is that the administration needs to do a much better job of outreach and education.
Even if o-care works where do you liberals expect the $ to come from to pay for all of these folks that will be requiring govt assistance to get covered?
Economy 101 states more $ printed decreases the value. The fed is over their head and ran out of $ years ago….keep drinking the kool aid folks
Not true. The dollar maintains it’s value regardless of the number printed, simply by being an accepted means of trading for things people want. It’s acceptance is dependent on the dollar’s perceived or actual stability. The dollar is the most stable and accepted currency in the world. It may be that something like bitcoin replaces the dollar someday, but that day is not today.
Printing new money does not create wealth for a country. Neither does it reduce wealth. Money is created by the interaction between concrete things, the desire for those things, and faith in what has value: money is valuable because we want it, but we want it only because it can get us a desired product or service.
People incorrectly treat dollars as if it were gold, which has value because it is pretty, therefore desirable, and relatively scarce. So the more the gold the less scarce and hence the less value. In simple terms, dollars are valuable because the US is stable and reliable.