A majority of Americans don’t want Congress to repeal the health law but believe its implementation is going poorly, according to a United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection poll. Meanwhile, a survey of physicians concludes they are unfamiliar with how the overhaul will work.
National Journal: Poll: Most Americans Don’t Want Congress To Repeal Obamacare
Americans aren’t ready to repeal Obamacare. But that doesn’t mean they think its implementation is going well. A majority of adults don’t want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, according to the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll, preferring instead to either spend more on its implementation or wait to see if changes are needed later. But based on recent news that the White House is delaying its employer health insurance mandate, the public appears convinced that the law’s implementation is going poorly (Roarty, 7/22).
NBC News: Even Doctors Are Clueless On Obamacare, Poll
The doctor is … skeptical about the Affordable Care Act. And clueless, too. A new survey shows that an overwhelming percentage of physicians don’t believe that their states’ new health insurance exchanges will meet the Oct. 1 deadline for those key Obamacare marketplaces to begin enrolling the uninsured. Just 11 percent of doctors believe those exchanges will be open for business that day. But those doctors, by a wide margin, also said they are “not at all familiar†with how a number of important aspects of those exchanges and plans offered on them will work-;aspects that will directly affect their bottom lines (Mangan, 7/22).
And Boston’s WBUR offers a soap opera to make the measure more digestible –