New high: 55% say Obamacare 'bad' for Americans, 46% say Obama 'misled' them

A new high has been reached of Americans who believe that Obamacare is bad for the country -- 55 percent.

Rasmussen Reports also said that just 35 percent of 1,000 likely voters surveyed in a new Obamacare poll believe that President Obama's trademark legislation and health program is good for America.

A similar 55 percent “also at least somewhat favor repealing the law, while 41 percent are opposed. This includes 43 percent who strongly favor repeal and 31 percent who strongly oppose it,” said the pollster.

“This is the highest number of voters who’ve said the law will be bad for the country in regular surveying since February 2011,” said the pollster who headlined their survey, “55% Favor Repeal of Obamacare.”

In addition, a whopping 71 percent of likely voters believe that Americans should be allowed to keep their current health insurance even if it doesn’t meet Obamacare’s conditions. The president made the promise that nobody would lose their insurance under Obamacare, but thousands are losing it, and the promise has been forced to admit he wasn’t truthful.

Some 74 percent believe that the administration has handled the problems with Obamacare fair to poorly, and 46 percent believe that the president “purposely misled” Americans about the impact of the new law on their lives.

Via: Washington Examiner

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Obama’s Promise of “Competition” in Obamacare: Also False

Here’s what the President said in 2009:

My guiding principle is, and always has been, that consumers do better when there is choice and competition. That’s how the market works. Unfortunately, in 34 states, 75 percent of the insurance market is controlled by five or fewer companies. In Alabama, almost 90 percent is controlled by just one company. And without competition, the price of insurance goes up and quality goes down.

Heritage expert Alyene Senger has bad news for President Obama: Obamacare did absolutely nothing to fix that.

“In the vast majority of states, the number of insurers competing in the state’s exchange is actually less than the number of carriers that previously sold individual market policies in the state,” Senger reveals in a new report.

That’s right—unsurprisingly, Obamacare made another problem worse.

In Alabama—the state the President mentioned with concern in 2009—about 96 percent of that state’s counties will have only one insurer offering coverage in the exchange. This means the residents in those counties will have no choice of insurer in the exchange.

State exchange plans are offered—and priced—on a local basis. So Senger dug down to the county level to find out what Americans are facing.

The result: In more than half of the counties in the U.S., people have only one or two insurance carriers offering coverage on their exchanges.

So not only are Americans facing higher premiums on the Obamacare exchanges, but they also face very limited choice in terms of their insurers.

Via: The Foundry

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CA: Tim Donnelly Proves There Is a God

Yes, ladies and gentlemen and especially fellow members of the media, Tim Donnelly is running for governor.

He may be a polarizing figure, but I believe he has already achieved a bipartisan consensus, at least among California’s Fourth Estate. And that consensus is: there is a God, and he loves us.

Before Donnelly’s official entry in the race, we were facing a snoozer of a gubernatorial election, with Jerry Brown certain to win re-election while facing maybe a nominal challenge from Abel Maldonado. We might have had to pay professional attention to such an election (I can’t call it a “race” or a “contest” and be accurate), but no one else would.

But now Donnelly is in, and, while we’re still facing a certain Jerry Brown win with no horse race drama, it won’t be quite so snoozy, since we’ll at least have one character in the race. And given the character of this character, we’ll be able to provide the public service of showing the total gap between his incendiary, attention-seeking comments and California’s 21st century reality.

He’ll rail against immigrant hordes, and we’ll be able to point out that net immigration to California has been zero for years and that immigrants are pillars of the community. (In many parts of Southern California, they’ve been here long than the native U.S. citizens). He’ll talk about a supposed lack of guns in the state, and we’ll point out the millions that are in hands of people who have demonstrated they shouldn’t own guns, Tim Donnelly among them. He’ll attack supposedly out-of-control spending, perhaps in press conferences held in a Sacramento decimated by years of government cuts and layoffs. He’ll rail against the oppressive dictatorship of the state and we’ll keep on writing stories about same-sex marriages and marijuana farms.

All the corrections would be helpful to the body politic. And Donnelly will keep offering opportunities in an interesting way that makes news. Heck, in announcing his candidacy, he promised to bring freedom back to California, which was surprising news since I hadn’t noticed its departure.

Via: California Political Review

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