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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Most Americans don't understand Obamacare, and even people who don't have
insurance believe the law won't do them much good, a new Wall Street Journal
/NBC News poll taken as the law's core provisions are about to roll out
shows.
Overall, 70 percent of respondents said they either don't understand
Obamacare or understand only parts of it, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Of those polled, 44 percent, think the healthcare overhaul is a bad idea,
while 31 percent think the plan is good and 25 percent say they're not sure.
"The coming six months or so is going to say a lot about whether this law
comes forward or collapses under its own weight. The administration has a
pretty heavy lift," said Levi Russell, a spokesman for the conservative
Americans for Prosperity. "Clearly people are skeptical, and rightly so, and
that's a good thing."
The uncertainty about the Affordable Care Act is building as next year's mid
-term elections grow closer, resulting in groups like Russell's beginning
television ads criticizing it, and Organizing for Action, which spun off
from President Barack Obama's reelection campaign, running ads in favor of
it.
The WSJ/NBC poll comes on the heels of a CNN Poll last week that shows more
than half of all Americans oppose Obamacare.
Senior White House official Tara McGuinness blamed much of the confusion on
Obamacare opponents, saying there have been efforts underway to undermine
education efforts. However, the outreach is mainly being done by community
and volunteer groups, as there are limited federal funds to publicize the
law.
"From staff in community health centers, to public service announcements and
outreach efforts, the six months from October to March will be key to
raising awareness about the new marketplaces and the benefits of the law for
Americans," McGuinness said.
States will open their health-insurance exchanges on Oct. 1, and plans sold
through the exchanges will take effect on Jan. 1, when most Americans are
required to either have coverage or face penalties.
However, there is worry that not enough healthy young people will sign up
for insurance, and their payments are needed to finance the exchanges.
Most of the uninsured — 76 percent — said in the Journal poll that they
don't understand the law and how it affects them, and only 32 percent said
they are likely to use the exchanges. In addition, only 23 percent of people
getting insurance on the individual market believe they'll use the state
exchanges.
In addition, people who don't have access to insurance are as skeptical of
the law as those directly affected. Thirty-four percent of the uninsured
polled think Obamacare will affect their families negatively, and 52 percent
said it won't change things for them.
Also, about one-third of the people already insured through the individual
health insurance market believe they'll be worse off through Obamacare, and
43 percent think they won't be impacted either way. |
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