Tag: Affordable Care Act
More In Favor of Obamacare Now
45%
Of Americans think the Affordable Care Act is a “good idea,” its highest mark since pollsters began asking about President Obama’s vision for a health overhaul in April 2009, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The latest number compares with 41% who think the health law is a “bad idea.”
Most Americans in Favor of Keeping Obamacare Until There Is an Alternative
75%
A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds that 75% of Americans say they either want lawmakers to leave Obamacare alone, or repeal it only when they can replace it with a new health care law. Just 20% of those polled say they want to see the law killed immediately.
Here’s Why Republicans Don’t Have a Plan to Replace Obamacare
Dear Dr. Democrat,
Republicans have been chomping at the bit to kill Obamacare forever. But now that they’re ready to do it, they don’t have a clue how to replace it.
What gives?
Signed,
Worried in Weehawken
‘Make America Sick Again’
“It’s a world where health insurance companies are jacking up rates, Americans are losing benefits and illness is racking the nation,” Politico reports.
“This is the apocalyptic picture of America offered by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to describe how he sees the health-care landscape after Republicans gut Obamacare. And he has found a slogan — borrowing from perhaps the most successful branding campaigns in modern political history — that he hopes to turn against the GOP repeal plan: ‘Make America Sick Again.’”
You’re Going to Miss Obamacare
Depending on where you live, up to one in three of you could find yourselves without insurance if Republicans are able to follow through on their threat to repeal Obamacare.
Here’s the problem. Without the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Obamacare’s official name, we would go back to allowing insurance companies to refuse to cover you if you ever had certain health problems. And it’s not just cancer or heart disease that falls into the “declinable pre-existing conditions” category. Do you, or does a loved one, have:
- Arthritis or other inflammatory joint diseases
- Diabetes
- Kidney disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Obesity (defined as a body mass index of 30 or higher, such as 5’9″ person who weighs at least 203 pounds)
- Parkinson’s disease
- Pending surgery
- Pregnancy
- Sleep anea
- Stroke
