Forty-seven percent (47%) of voters believe repeal of the health care bill will be good for the economy. Thirty-three percent (33%) disagree.
Eighty-eight percent (88%) of Republicans and 54% of voters not affiliated with either major party favor repeal. Sixty-one percent (61%) of Democrats are opposed. Republican support for repeal is up eight points from a week ago, while Democratic opposition is down seven.
Not a good trend for the Donkeys. But as is general with such trends, it’s good for the country.
I think “repeal” is “replace.” Replace the gobbledygook-filled ObamaCare bill, which will almost certainly lead to complaints about quality of care, with a system where the only real complaint is health care insurance.
Some kind of “replace” is needed or we’ll be right back to single payer.
Health insurance needs to migrate away from companies and be purchased by the man on the street. This would require real tort reform, competition and likely some kind of, dare I say it, “death panel” decisions by the government on coverage limits. Right now coverage limits are blamed on the evil capitalist companies who have to take into account the “bottom line”. This leaves the system open to attack for socialist solutions that give even worse coverage. Since the left has now agreed in principle to coverage limitations by government panel, that part should be incorporated into the new market plan on what constitutes an acceptible level of coverage. IOWs, rather like insurance commissions that various states use. This is open to corruption, of course, but it’s nowhere near as intrusive or government friendly as Obamacare.
Extremely unlikely. Too many gutless, over-calculating, or grandstanders in the GOP. Think Snowe, Cornyn, and McCain in that order.