A Startling One-Third Of Americans Don’t Know ObamaCare and Affordable Care Are the Same
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by Michael J. Scott
America: Land of the Free, Home of the “Uneducated?” Try an experiment and ask some folks if they would like to see ObamaCare repealed and they’ll say yes. Ask those same people if they want the Affordable Care Act repealed and they may say NO.
I can only hope that those reading this know there is only one Affordable Care Act and it is the same as ObamaCare. The New York Times reports, based on a survey by Morning Consult, a “sizable minority” of people don’t know the two are one and the same. Around 17% of those who participated in the poll said they believed ObamaCare and the ACA were two different health-care entities, while another 18% just weren’t sure.
Younger people (ages 18 to 29) seemed to have the most head-scratching over this, as did those making less than $50,000 a year—both groups that could be hit hard by a repeal, the Times notes.
This “apparent confusion,” per Fortune, also extended into what people believed would happen if the ACA were indeed repealed, with 29% thinking incorrectly that Medicaid coverage and private insurance subsidies would remain untouched, while another 24% admitted they didn’t know.
In the meantime, the push to repeal has slowed down substantially on Capitol Hill. Reckless republicans were forced to actually read the law, and that presented the first challenge. The second was figuring out how to get rid of it without depriving almost 20 million people of health insurance, you know ObamaCare.
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An awful lot of Americans are uneducated idiots!
Yes they are, and the vast majority of them voted for Donald Trump.
Yup