For Republicans who want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, there is a
major problem: many people may hate the law, but just as many like it.
“The thing that bothers me is people constantly forget that all politics is local, and that there’s great variation in the extent to which the law is accepted or is going to work. It’s state by state,” says Austin Frakt, an associate professor of public health at the Boston University School of Public Health and co-author of the popular Incidental Economist blog. “It’s not fair to say we’ll repeal the whole thing because there’s half the states that are cool with it.”
That may be even more true today than it was before, as the Obama administration released new figures saying that, through January, a total of 3.3 million people had signed up to get health insurance either through the federal government’s Healthcare.gov website or through the insurance exchanges run on the state level. That includes 1 million who signed up in January alone.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2014/02/12/new-signup-numbers-show-why-obamacare-may-be-impossible-to-repeal/
“The thing that bothers me is people constantly forget that all politics is local, and that there’s great variation in the extent to which the law is accepted or is going to work. It’s state by state,” says Austin Frakt, an associate professor of public health at the Boston University School of Public Health and co-author of the popular Incidental Economist blog. “It’s not fair to say we’ll repeal the whole thing because there’s half the states that are cool with it.”
That may be even more true today than it was before, as the Obama administration released new figures saying that, through January, a total of 3.3 million people had signed up to get health insurance either through the federal government’s Healthcare.gov website or through the insurance exchanges run on the state level. That includes 1 million who signed up in January alone.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2014/02/12/new-signup-numbers-show-why-obamacare-may-be-impossible-to-repeal/
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