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23% Say ObamaCare Hurt Them, Only 10% Say it Helped

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On March 7, 2014 @ 9:36 am In The Point | No Comments

Like most social justice programs, ObamaCare hurt more people than it helped. Considering that redistribution is the real purpose of ObamaCare, this disparity in the number helped and the number hurt is a feature, not a bug.

23% of Americans say the healthcare law has hurt them or their families, while 10% say it has helped them so far. Still, the majority of Americans (63%) feel the law has had no impact on them or their families.

This update is from Gallup polling conducted between Feb. 28 and March 2, just prior to the Obama administration’s announcement this week that insurance companies will be able to delay until next year the requirement that they cancel or replace policies that don’t conform to the provisions of the law often referred to as “Obamacare.”

The 23% who feel the law has hurt them is the highest percentage for the question since Gallup began asking Americans about it in 2012, and is up from 19% in previous polling.

The only reason Obama has made this concession is because of sheer panic. His popularity is in free fall and nothing is helping. Ordinarily an international crisis should have raised his approval rating, but no such luck this time.

The ObamaCare brand is politically lethal. There is no way to blame something called ObamaCare on anyone else which means that 23% knows exactly whom to blame.


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