Summary

Republican increasingly support for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

According to a new Gallup poll, 19% of Republicans approve of Obamacare, the highest approval number since the poll began in 2012.

Additionally, 32% of Republicans believe the government has a responsibility to ensure health care coverage for all Americans, a significant jump from the 22% who said the same in 2020.

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      I forget which Behind the Bastards episode first put me on to this but man, there’s such a long history of people in the US killing or trying to kill good projects because it helps the “wrong” people

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      tbf i would expect a progressive party to vote against a policy that 81% of their constituents didn’t agree with

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      They’re going to spend the next four years breaking things and stuffing money into any place that will hold it. They don’t know how to build jack shit.

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        What’s ironic is that stable governments protect rich people’s money. Unstable governments let rich people get killed by mobs and then seize their assets

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      They had multiple shots. They could easily have bill that replaces or worth something else, but they instead opted to remove it without alternative.

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      They have concepts of a plan. The real plan will be out in 2 weeks, give or take. If you ask about it, the timer starts over.

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    Some people believe “Trump fixed it,” because he said that.

    (He didn’t. He actually made it harder to enroll.)

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    These people don’t know what’s good for them. Listen to terrible sources. And so we all suffer. I wish I could separate from them.

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    Likely the main reason this is rising is because it’s no longer a propaganda talking point. Because Trump has so many other that are more attention-grabbing.

    I believe that we’ve flipped and propaganda now has greater weight on public opinion than factual reporting. And I think this rebound shows some data of the effect of propaganda, evidenced by factual reality (people like having healthcare more than not, shockingly) creeping to fill the space left by receding propaganda.

    We’ll never have a scientifically-sound study that clearly measures the poll effects of propaganda because of definitional and exposure unreliability. So inferential data like this is fascinating.

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      Why can’t we have some benign entity propagandize objective reality and data-backed solutions for the common good?? Is that not the obvious solution?

      Alt-right brain rot is terminal now.

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    It was originally a Republican plan and they lack object permanence so I’m not surprised