05-01-2014, 02:00 AM
In September 2013, CNBC found that 46 percent of the public said they were opposed to "Obamacare," but only 36 percent of the public said they were opposed to "the Affordable Care Act." In other words, the name Obamacare boosted opposition by 10 percentage points. The disconnect runs deeper. The Kaiser Family Foundation has found that the component parts of Obamacare poll highly even as the law itself remains unpopular. They also found that Obamacare's most popular provisions were its least well-known, and vice versa:
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Dean Angstadt hated the Affordable Care Act with intense partisan fervor until it saved his life. "[T]his year … a faulty aortic valve almost felled Angstadt," writes Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Robert Calandra. "Suddenly, he was facing a choice: Buy a health plan, through a law he despised, that would pay the lion's share of the cost of the life-saving surgery—or die. He chose the former." Now he's proselytizing for Obamacare.
Affordable Care Act Convert Would Have Died Without Obamacare | New Republic