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Perhaps the reason the Democrats lost their super majority was because they rammed ACA and ARRA down the throats of congress with no bipartisan cooperation. It'
by marknutter 10y ago
Perhaps the reason the Democrats lost their super majority was because they rammed ACA and ARRA down the throats of congress with no bipartisan cooperation. It's hard to get the other side to work with you when you've demonstrated how little their opinions matter to you in the first place.
- aioprisan 10y agoThat's generally the nature of massive reform. It had to be done and there were political costs associated with it, but it was worth it from a net cost and health outcomes perspective. Desegregation was pretty unpopular as well, are you saying that shouldn't have happened either?
- marknutter 10y agoYou're comparing desegregation to the ACA? I'm pretty sure most Democrats are unhappy with the ACA.
- aioprisan 10y agoCare to cite that source? Is this in recent memory or a poll done at the height of ad campaigns being run trying to assuage folks one way or the other? To help you out, here's what the latest June 2016 polling says about Democrats and that ACA: "16 percent of Democrats report an unfavorable opinion, down from 25 percent in April." (http://kff.org/global-health-policy/poll-finding/kaiser-health-tracking-poll-june-2016/ http://kff.org/global-health-policy/poll-finding/kaiser-heal...)
- marknutter 10y agoI guess what I mean is, when compared to a single-payer system, most Democrats were unhappy with the ACA. I'd be wary of believing any polls about the ACA in general because Democrats likely feel a duty to support it in the face of criticism from Republicans. A much more informative poll would be asking Democrats whether they would have preferred a single-payer system.