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Poll: 67% hope Supreme Court throws out ObamaCare mandate or entire law
This ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that Americans oppose the law overall by 52-41 percent. And 67 percent believe the high court should either ditch the law or at least the portion that requires nearly all Americans to have coverage.
The high court opens hearings on the law’s constitutionality a week from today…
Intensity of sentiment is more negative as well: Forty-one percent strongly oppose the law, while only a quarter strongly support it.
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Count it.
Good Lt on March 19, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Either way, it will be a political bonanza and an albatross in 2012.
Schadenfreude on March 19, 2012 at 1:25 PM
The administration’s shifting arguments tell me that the mandate will be tossed.
The question will be whether they declare it severable, which I doubt they will on a very close vote, killing the whole bill.
teke184 on March 19, 2012 at 1:26 PM
ABC Poll?
Probably means 89% are against Obamacare.
portlandon on March 19, 2012 at 1:32 PM
67% of Americans reject Obama’s Corporatism.
How many of those folks realize the fake War on Women is a tool to give tax-payer money to the Pharmaceutical companies?
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” – Benito Mussolini.
batterup on March 19, 2012 at 1:33 PM
67% will be disappointed. O-care will be ruled A-OK by SCOTUS and I think with a surprise yes to make it 6-3. Obama and Romney will be vindicated by this since both of them supported nationalized health care. But Obama will get the greatest political mileage out of it since his signature achievement will have been given the thumbs up by the highest court in the land.
If anyone but Romney were the nomninee, it could help the GOP as well as the base would be breaking down doors to get to the polling station. But with Romney, what will you be voting for? The guy who wrote O-Care v 1.0?
Obama = Romney = Obama = 1984 type landslide for Democrats
angryed on March 19, 2012 at 1:34 PM
Even if they do declae severability, without the mandate, it can’t be funded if they continue the policy of not allowing preexisting conditions to cause noninsurability.
a capella on March 19, 2012 at 1:35 PM
That’s brutal.
WisRich on March 19, 2012 at 1:36 PM
It must have pained ABC editors to post those results. Although, I see they did at least say they “could construe the results” to favor support for the law. I’m assuming that was added in order for the editors not to be overcome by the desire to commit sepuku after posting it.
gravityman on March 19, 2012 at 1:43 PM
Now come on! You can only add the 12 points they oversample libs!
Everyone except the 0Zombies want that Obomination gone.
dogsoldier on March 19, 2012 at 1:45 PM
Let’s see how much light this poll gets
jake-the-goose on March 19, 2012 at 1:53 PM
…and it will be time to move to the fourth box.
As the SCOTUS will have declared the US Constitutional base of enumerated powers null and void.
Nathan_OH on March 19, 2012 at 1:54 PM
I like the news headlines on this.
http://news.yahoo.com/4-republican-justices-control-fate-health-law-115552374.html
The same story is being run in multiple media outlets.
Cindy Munford on March 19, 2012 at 1:56 PM
That’s nice. So why do the clueless want to reelect the people who created the monstrous law?
yhxqqsn on March 19, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Indeed…anything with ABC/Washington post involved…add at least 10 percentage points.
BigWyo on March 19, 2012 at 2:07 PM
If the supremes strike it down I’m sure Obama, Reid and Pelosi could come up with a new 2000 page bill in about a week, never read it, have Obama debate the bill with republicans by telling them to shut up, and then declare it law by executive order.
AmeriKa!
fogw on March 19, 2012 at 2:08 PM
The Supreme Court is not a political arm of the government.
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SouthernGent on March 19, 2012 at 2:11 PM
COUNT IT!
Chuck Schick on March 19, 2012 at 2:28 PM
…thus setting the stage for the single payer option they wanted in the first place.
Dee2008 on March 19, 2012 at 2:29 PM
That’s sadly true.
Just Sayin on March 19, 2012 at 2:36 PM
But wait, his 17 minute trailer last week championed its success and now the ABC poll says the minions despise it–yup, no propaganda there peeps, move along…
hillsoftx on March 19, 2012 at 3:30 PM
From the recently-released, Forrest Gump-narrated propaganda film about Barry/Baraka’s “achievements” during his first three years in office.
Even though a liberal writer has already found the records that proved that Stanley Ann Dunham did, in fact (and contrary to Barry’s assertions), have employer-provided medical insurance at the time of her cancer diagnosis, the Obamas continue to pretend that Dunham’s death was somehow due to a lack of medical insurance. Dunham received state-of-the art medical treatment for her cancer, thanks to her employer-provided medical insurance, yet somehow her death could have been prevented . . . if only she’d had government-mandated medical insurance.
AZCoyote on March 19, 2012 at 3:35 PM
When I worked as a surgeon in the British socialized medicine system, I saw people who could have been saved in the US die because of their need to cut costs and the necessity to ration care.
redeye on March 19, 2012 at 3:38 PM