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To: Alighieri who wrote (849599)	4/13/2015 11:55:58 AM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Respond to of 1574042

Health Care Law Voters See Quality of Health Care Going Down in Politics Email thisShareThis Related Articles Daily Presidential Tracking Poll Costs Up, Quality Down: How Voters Still See Obamacare Voters Like Health Insurance But Not If It’s Mandated Costs Are Biggest Health Care Problem for Most, and Feds Can’t Help Voters Less Hot for Obamacare Fix More Voters Think It's Too Easy to Get An Abortion Sign up for free daily updates Monday, April 13, 2015 Voters are increasingly critical of the health care they get and predict it will get even worse under the new national health care law. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 70% of Likely U.S. Voters still rate the quality of the health care they receive as good or excellent. That’s down just one point from January but is the lowest finding in nearly two-and-a-half years of regular surveying. These positives have generally run in the high 70s and low 80s for most of this period but have been trending down since the first of the year. Only six percent (6%), however, rate the care they get as poor, consistent with findings in past surveys. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

To: Alighieri who wrote (849599)	4/13/2015 11:56:12 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574042

>> So according to your read of the Gallup graph, ACA is responsible for 33% of Americans (that's what ?90+Million people) putting off medical care due to cost, No; clearly, some people were putting off health care due to cost before ACA. But any argument that ACA is making health care more "affordable" has qualified with, "Maybe for some, at least." Some people undoubtedly do better under ACA; but some people do worse. And the number who do worse is probably higher, which was the genesis of this conversation. Again, this amounts to innumeracy. You're a smart person, you ought to be able to understand that the country doesn't have unlimited money. We're putting a couple trillion dollars into this fiasco, and we damned well ought to be getting some pretty serious bang for those bucks. (Okay, let's hear the obligatory, "But the Wars!" comeback). Even if you could make the argument people's lives were improved, which you cannot, you certainly cannot make the argument that it was money well spent. That we couldn't have done far more for far less money had the objective been to improve people's lives rather than what it was (to get SOME KIND of health care reform law enacted, regardless of content).