The Maddow Blog - the Two Constants in Health Care Polling
For well over two years, the polling on health care has been remarkably consistent. Indeed, there have been two broad, unyielding truths: (1) asked about the Democratic plan/law in general, Americans don’t like it; and (2) asked about what’s in the Democratic plan/law, Americans like it quite a bit.
And two years after the Affordable Care Act became law, guess what: the pattern holds.
Two-thirds of Americans want the Supreme Court to overturn some or all of the health care law, even though large majorities support a few of its major aspects, according to a poll by The New York Times and CBS News.
Here’s a chart I put together, highlighting the difference between support for the overall law, the controversial mandate Republicans loved until Obama agreed with them, and some of the more notable provisions of the law itself.