CNN Poll Finds Only 38% Support for Obamacare Mandate

CNN Poll: Support Plummets For Obamacare, Only 38% Favor Requiring All Americans Who Dont Have Health Insurance To Get It
The Hill: Public support for a key element of President Obama’s Healthcare Reform law is slipping after a Federal Judge ruled the provision is Unconstitutional, according to a poll released Monday. A CNN/Opinion Research poll showed that only 38 percent now favor language “requiring all Americans who do not have Health Insurance to get it.” Support fell six points from August, when it was at 44 percent. Opposition to the provision has risen to 60 percent from 56 in August. S...

Poll: Individual Coverage Mandate Least Popular Part of Health Care Law
The Health Care bill that passed earlier this year continues to be a divisive and generally unpopular piece of Legislation as a whole. But a CNN poll out today indicates that the broad unpopularity may in part be due to just one of the bill's provisions -- the Individual Mandate. When asked specifically about three major provisions contained in the Health Care law, only the one requiring all Americans to have Health Insurance was opposed by a majority of respondents to the poll. Thirty-eight p...

Support for individual mandate slips, poll says
Public support for a key element of President Obama's health reform law is slipping after a Federal Judge ruled against the provision's constitutionality, according to a poll released Monday.  A CNN/Opinion Research poll showed that only 38 percent now favor language "requiring all Americans who do not have Health Insurance to get it." Support fell six points from August, when it was at 44 percent. Opposition to the provision has risen to 60 percent from 56 percent in August. Support for the ...

Majority Either Like Healthcare Law Or Want It More Liberal
You may have noticed the CNN/Opinion Research poll released earlier this week, which had this all too familiar top-line: 54 percent of voters oppose President Obama’s Healthcare Reform law. But drill down a bit and you’ll find another number familiar to those who have paid attention--but one generally lost amid the noise of the conservative healthcare narrative of backlash against government overreach. Only a relatively small minority of Americans dislike the new law because it&rsq...;

Two-Thirds of Independents Support Repeal
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. The latest Rasmussen Poll of Likely Voters shows that 66 percent of Independents support the Repeal of ObamaCare, while only 30 percent oppose it. Since the Democrats, of course, are the party that passed Obamacare -- without a single Republican vote -- it's amazing that Independents are even more supportive of Repeal than Democrats are opposed to it. Democrats oppose Repeal by the tally of only 60 to 37 percent. Moreover, among ind...

What do ObamaCare and the Reagan Tax Cut Have in Common?
Well, things certainly went well for that cheery fellow, didn’t they? Mondale went on to lose 49 states that year as the Democratic presidential nominee attempting to unseat Ronald Reagan. But more to the point, Mondale’s inability to convince the American public that the “Reagan Tax Cut” of 1981 needed to be repealed allowed Republicans to move the goalposts substantially right-ward on issues of federal taxation. Indeed, the modern-day, standard issue Democratic posit...

Right Turn: Voters really don't like ObamaCare -- still
Yesterday, I noted with some bemusement liberals' stubborn lack of appreciation for the depth of opposition to ObamaCare. Two polls bear out just how widespread and persistent that opposition is. Rasmussen Reports: "For the second time this month, 60% of Likely Voters at least somewhat favor Repeal of the national Health Care law, while the number who expect Health Care costs to increase is at its highest level since August. "The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey ...

Reich: The Tea Party Strategy
Robert Reich has a prediction: New Years Prediction (I): The Tea Party Conservative Strategy for 2011, by Robert Reich: Next week starts the new Congress, and with it the Tea Party Conservatives. What’s their strategy? What will they rally around?   They’ll grouse endlessly about Government Spending but I don’t think they’ll use any particular spending bill to mobilize and energize their grass roots. The big bucks are in Social Security, Medicare, and defense, which are too p

Hey, Barbie... show us if you've got some guts.
Your hopefully short-lived tenure has been a disaster to date; your ongoing, cowardly refusal to take a position on anything may be "cute" or "smart" to an empty suit like you... and it may be what your keepers want. Rep.-elect Joe Walsh of Illinois has become the third freshman Republican to turn down the gold-plated government-sponsored Health Insurance plan available to lawmakers. "I don’t think congressmen should get pensions or cushy healthcare plans," he tells the Chicago News Cooper...

Number Of Health Care Uninsured Rises Over 50 Million
A troubling new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation reveals that the number of Americans without Health Insurance is now over 50 million. The report also found that the number of Americans without any Health Care coverage grew by more than four million in 2009, leaving almost one-fifth of non-elderly people Uninsured. Among those between 19 and 29 years old, nearly one-third lack coverage. This recent epidemic of lost Health Care coverage is directly related to the employer-based health car...

Healthy living is paying off
Four years ago, the county government gambled on a new idea -- spending $400,000 a year to promote better health for its employees. After several years of double-digit increases in Health Insurance costs, the county's cost declined nearly 12% over 2008 and 2009. Before the county started the program, it had projected that Health Care Insurance for its nearly 3,500 active employees would hit $50 million in 2010. Instead, the county paid $38 million this...

Terrain Shifts in Challenges to the Health Care Law
By KEVIN SACK NYT The Legal Challenge to the Obama Health Care act has invigorated a dispute as old as the Constitution about the framers’ most nettlesome grant of power, which gives Congress treacherously broad authority to pass laws “necessary and proper” to carrying out its assigned responsibilities. The cases, which are presumed to be headed to the Supreme Court, center on whether Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce is so expansive that it can require citizens to b

Follow the Bouncing Buck
Two weeks ago, writing in The Washington Post, Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius argued that Americans must be forced to buy government-approved medical coverage to prevent "unfair cost-shifting" by Uninsured patients. They neglected to mention that the Federal Government mandates such cost shifting by requiring Hospitals to treat all comers, regardless of their ability to pay. Holder and Sebelius also misleadingly implied that the individu...

Holding Democrats Accountable
I mean, where to begin? It’s not that Democrats have been in charge for the last two years—they’ve been in charge of Congress since 2006. Thankfully, that ends, at least in the House come January. But damage has already been done, including the opaque nature of how ObamaCare regulations are being written currently and the gratuitous waste of “stimulus” spending. As Senator-elect Roy Blunt states in this clip, it will be the responsibility of the GOP to oversee how ...

CNN Poll: Support For ObamaCares Individual Mandate Hits All-Time Low, 38%
The poll comes after a Virginia Federal Judge appointed by President George W. Bush struck down the provision, dealing the Obama Administration’s healthcare law its first major defeat in the courts. Experts expect the dispute to reach the Supreme Court; two previous challenges to the mandate were defeated in Virginia and Michigan by judges appointed by President Clinton. The individual Health Insurance mandate is regarded as a central element of the law, but the administration has...

CNN Poll: Americans Still Oppose Individual Mandate, 6 in 10 Oppose Individual Mandate that Requires all Americans to Buy Health
According to a recent CNN/Opinions Dynamics poll , Americans still oppose the Individual Mandate provisions that requires all individuals to purchase Health Care Insurance. By a 60% to 38% margin, Americans oppose the individual mandate. Also, a majority of Americans polled oppose ObamaCare overall. CNN states that the number of people opposed is less than earlier this year. Maybe they would like to check out the Rasmussen Poll, where 60% oppose and want the the government take over of health...

Live by the polls, die by the polls?
Speaker John Boehner's office tweets, "@CNN survey: 60 percent of Americans oppose Unconstitutional Individual Mandate in ObamaCare." The link goes to this Hill article reporting that support for the Individual Mandate has slipped from 44 percent to 38 percent. But if you look at the full poll (pdf), there's more of interest. For instance, this question: So 56 percent of voters either favor the Legislation or wish it was more liberal. Only 37 percent oppose it for being too liberal. There's some...

The Year In: Health Care.
When 2010 began, "Death Panels" were all the rage, Scott Brown was soon to gain Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, and Health Care reform looked to be on the ropes. Within a few months, however, reform, the culmination of decades of work by Progressives, became law. But the debate didn't end when the Affordable Care Act was signed, and TAP covered it from almost every angle imaginable: We celebrated the final passage of reform, because while the bill could have been better, we now have a foundation for...

The difficulty of defending the conservative position on the individual mandate
Avik Roy, a conservative health-policy wonk, mounts a valiant effort to rationalize the multi-decade period of conservative affection for the Individual Mandate with the current conservative consensus that the mandate is an Unconstitutional monstrosity -- but it's not an easy task. As Roy admits, the arguments he offers are "policy points" -- they're reasons to think an Individual Mandate won't work as well as Mitt Romney and the Heritage Foundation thought it would five years ago. We could go ...

Romney's Team Refines Its Health Care Pitch, Defense
A Virginia judge's ruling earlier this month that a key provision of President Barack Obama's Health Care law is Unconstitutional was hailed as a major breakthrough for all segments of the Republican Party save, perhaps, one. Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.), whose own successful dalliance with Health Care reform in Massachusetts is cited as an intellectual model for ObamaCare, stands to gain little from this specific policy topic being at the center of political discourse. At least that's ho...

The effect of Obamacare on some Dallas area hospitals
There are currently 22 physicians-owned Hospitals (POHs) in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that, under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (now almost universally known as "ObamaCare"), are being adversely affected by Section 6001 of the Act. POHs are primarily specialty hospitals, exclusively treating certain medical problems, the other kind of hospital is the general hospital that does everything from simple first aid to Brain Surgery. Section 6001 of Obama's Health Care law effectively...

Poll: Opposition to Individual Mandate at All-Time High
It should be noted that the favorability gap is shrinking in each of the poll’s three iterations since March of this year. But what is more interesting is that, while support for the bans on dropping or denying coverage when an individual is sick remains fairly constant, opposition to the Individual Mandate has reached an all-time high. Opinion on the mandate was evenly split, 49/49, in November of 2009. By February of 2010, 53 percent opposed the mandate while 45 percent supported it. In ...

Americans Still Oppose ObamaCare Law, Individual Mandate
Two new National Polls released today show Americans still strongly oppose the ObamaCare law that contains Abortion-funding and Rationing. They also oppose the Individual Mandate requirement making them purchase Health Care. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows 60 percent of Likely Voters at least somewhat favor Repeal of the national health care law, while the number who expect health care costs to increase is at its highest level since August. The 60 percent who favor r...

Poll: Obama advances, Palin loses ground
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's tax deal with congressional Republicans hasn't hurt his standing among Democrats, a CNN poll indicates. The poll, released Tuesday, also indicates former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2008, may be losing ground within her party. The CNN/Opinion Research Corp survey indicated 78 percent of Democrats said they want to see Obama head their party's ticket in 2012, while 19 percent saying they would prefer some...

CNN: One-quarter of health reform opponents say it's not liberal enough
Opinion Research Corporation for CNN. 12/17-19. 1,000 American adults. MoE 3%. As you may know, a bill that makes major changes to the country's Health Care system became law earlier this year. Based on what you have read or heard about that Legislation, do you generally favor or generally oppose it? Favor: 43% Oppose: 54% (IF OPPOSE) Do you oppose that legislation because you think its approach toward Health Care is too liberal, or because you think it is not liberal enough? Favor (from prev...