To Campaign On Repeal or Not…That Is The Question

Republicans hoping to campaign on repealing the health care bill might have to rethink their strategy.

Polls showed that a majority of Americans always supported various elements of the health care bill, if not the bill itself. But a new poll by The Associated Press and the GfK marketing group shows that support for the plan as a whole has risen to its highest level since the survey started last fall. Some 45 percent of respondents favor now the law, while 42 percent oppose it. Only a month ago, opponents were ahead of supporters, 46 percent to 39. People are apparently beginning to understand that the law is an expansion of access to affordable private insurance, not a government takeover or a socialist plot.

As the reforms take effect and that realization spreads, New Hampshire’s Republican senatorial candidates may have to find a different ideological hobby horse to ride into the fall elections. Promising to take away people’s access to health care might not prove as popular as they thought.

Calling for repeal will certainly please teabaggers and the rest of the base but who still believe that the health care bill was a socialist takeover by government. It’ll be another matter trying to convince independents that scrapping the bill and handing full control back to the h/c industry is a good plan of action. Few people but hardcore righties wish to return to square one.

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Comments

PerryE says:

June 29, 2010 at 9:34 am

I never understood why they did not combine this health bill with Medicare which is already in place, needs money and the health bill combined, like a merger of companies, will bring money. All they needed was to add the rest of the population. More insured, more stable and more money! It’s simple. Why is everything so complicated in this country?
Charlie Sommers says:

June 29, 2010 at 9:46 am

I already had excellent health care and mine is totally controlled by the government. I am a partially disabled veteran and receive all my care through the VA in a system which is not unlike the UK’s NHA. My wife is on Medicare and she also receives excellent health care.

I really don’t understand the teabaggers objection to a form of social medicine. The countries that use it have such things as, longer life expectancies (we rank very low),and lower rates of infant mortality (we rank below even Cuba in this catagory).

If the baggers want to totally protest anything that smells like socialism they should; boycott their public libraries, eschew the aid of their local fire department and extinguish their burning homes themselves and, above all, never drive on the interstate highway system.
Craig says:

June 29, 2010 at 10:09 am

The Republicans will shoot themselves in the foot with this too, just as they have with support for the racist Arizona bill. Over time they’ll see their base dwindling as the ratio of white ‘mericans to people of color declines.
azannaphx says:

June 29, 2010 at 10:34 am

I would not be surprised that the Republicans would campaign on no healthcare. We often only hear about what they do not want rather than what they do want for the country. For the most part, it is lower taxes, do nothing, dismantle what is there, go to war without paying for it and let business go about their way with no regulation.