Poll: Americans dislike GOP's, Trump's plan on health care

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Source: Associated Press

Sixty-two percent of Americans turned thumbs down on Trump's handling of health care during the initial weeks of his presidency, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released Wednesday. It was his worst rating among seven issues the poll tested, including the economy, foreign policy and immigration.

An overwhelming 8 in 10 opposed the Republican proposal to let insurers boost premiums on older people. Seven in 10 disapproved of premium surcharges for people whose coverage lapses.

By wide margins, people also disliked proposed cuts in Medicaid, which helps lower-earning people cover medical costs, a halt in federal payments to Planned Parenthood and a transformation of the Obama law's subsidies based on income and premium costs into aid linked to age.

... In addition, Republicans had mixed views on the collapsed House GOP bill. Clear majorities of them opposed boosting premiums for older people and those who've had gaps in coverage. They were more likely to oppose than support cutting Medicaid and were divided over linking subsidies to age more than income.


Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-americans-dislike-gops-trumps-181011343.html

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I particularly like:

"Seven in 10 disapproved of premium surcharges for people whose coverage lapses"

I'm delighted that, though some don't think of it as a "mandate", they obviously don't like being penalized for not having insurance and didn't quite swallow the RepubliCONs' claims about "freedom" and "no mandate".

(BTW the ACA's "mandate" is also only a financial penalty for not having insurance -- so either both the AHCA (CaligulaCare) and the ACA (Obamacare) have a mandate, or they both don't).

By the way, Medicare also has a financial penalty (a lifetime boost in premiums) for those who don't enroll in Part B and Part D (prescription drug coverage) when they are supposed to (within a 7 month window around the month they turn 65, unless one has qualifying coverage from e.g. an employer plan).

Medicare Supplement Plans (Medigap) also have a financial penalty for enrolling late -- in that if you enroll late, plans are allowed to charge you higher premiums or refuse to enroll you based on your health.

So defacto mandates and financial penalties are not unique to the ACA, as some may think.

(This rant was inspired by another thread where someone complained about the ACA's penalties (for having no insurance) as if they were a unique feature of the ACA that some stupid conservaDems stuck in there to be mean). {rantoff}

[burrowowl]

1. Are people waking up!?

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2. BTW, in this poll, 58% disapprove of Caligula's performance as president

which is only a little different than the 62% who disapprove of his handling of healthcare. Perhaps an indicator that his healthcare debacle had a considerable effect in increasing his overall disapproval rating.

[SHRED]

3. Because it's really 'Wealthcare'

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4. Too bad Ryan won't give two fucks. Or even one. n/t