CNN Poll: Only 20% Believe they will be Better Off if Obama’s Health Plan Passes

Posted by Dan Perrin (Profile)

Wednesday, July 1st at 2:08PM EDT

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The poll is dated June 26-28, with a 3% +/- margin of error.

The CNN poll question and answers are:

If Obama’s health plan passed, your family would be…

20% Better Off

35% Worse Off

44% About the Same

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that's a 79% reason for not doing it-nt

DONTREADONME Wednesday, July 1st at 2:16PM EDT (link)

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yeah but...

cannedjam Wednesday, July 1st at 11:56PM EDT (link)

don’t you just feel kinda bored with the way things are and itch to throw the dice on a trillion dollar gamble? God I know I am!

http://cannedjam.com

Is that likely OBH voters?

itdiehard Wednesday, July 1st at 2:48PM EDT (link)

N/T..

Majority Support For: Let me do the Obamedia Math for You

jimmuy8 Wednesday, July 1st at 3:14PM EDT (link)

A clear majority of Americans want public health care; 20% think they will be better added to the 44% who think it’ll be the same.
It’s obvious the 44% who think they’ll fare the same are those satisfied with their current coverage and, because Obamacare will be as good as or better than your current coverage, they clearly support the Obamacare public option.

Thus, 64% of Americans agree that we must–I repeat–must have Obamacare.

The 35% are just rich Republicans who only oppose it because Doctor Utopia offered it–even though everybody knows even they would be better off under Obamacare.

Polls, I guess, are in the eye of the beholder

Dan Perrin Wednesday, July 1st at 3:23PM EDT (link)

But the key number is those who think they will be better off, versus those who think they will be worse off.

It is likely that the 44% number will drop off over time, and move into one or the other Better or Worse off choices,

We will see where the 44% end up.

The reason I posted it was that I thought, given the media sell-job that has been going on, that 20% number would be much, much higher.

The 44% "No Change" Number Is Actually Not Good News For Obama

IJB Wednesday, July 1st at 3:38PM EDT (link)

The default position for most people is *inertia*.

The 44% of people who think there will be “no change” for them are much more likely to say “So, why change anything, if it’s going to be the same either way?!” than they are to say “Well, if it’ll be the same either way, let’s change it!!”

Further, many of the 44% who think they’re will be no change for them, may still oppose Obamacare for other reasons (e.g. they may feel that their health care won’t change, but that their taxes might go up, or that the deficit/debt might explode, etc.).

So, even if the 44% “No Change” number doesn’t go down, it is by no means that it’s good news for Zero.

Basically, it makes more sense to take the “Worse”/”No Change” sum of 79% as a true “anti”sentiment than it does to take the “Better”/”No Change” sum of 64% as being truly “pro”…

AGREED!

Dan Perrin Wednesday, July 1st at 8:01PM EDT (link)

Well said.

^5 nt

TNJim Wednesday, July 1st at 8:51PM EDT (link)

“No. You can’t” -Moe Lane

That is shocking that CNN would actually release that poll

izoneguy Wednesday, July 1st at 8:10PM EDT (link)

Watch Obummer backpeddle on how the CNN poll is not the poll that he would normally see from CNN. So the more Obummer gets out and cheerleads his health plan the further his own poll numbers should plummet.

“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson

Sometime self-interest prevails over adoration

civil_truth Wednesday, July 1st at 9:02PM EDT (link)

It may be that even the CNN heirarchy are starting to get cold feet about nationalized health care as they see the devil in the details in terms of how it will affect THEM and the taxes that it will evoke. And knowing this president and how poll-driven he is, they’re hoping to keep him from marching off a cliff.

And Rightly So!

Those 44% people...

marshmom Wednesday, July 1st at 8:46PM EDT (link)

obviously don’t know the details. If they did, they would be in the “worse off” category. At least the majority of them would.

I'm thinking the same thing, marshmom.

TNJim Wednesday, July 1st at 8:54PM EDT (link)

As others above have said, I too think that 44% number will shift into the “worse off” ccategory if they bother to look into the details of Obamacare.

“No. You can’t” -Moe Lane

The 44% are also assuming

tanstaafl1019 Friday, July 3rd at 12:33PM EDT (link)

That they’ll be allowed the “choice” of not changing anything. Obama’s already been back-pedaling on whether the government will allow people to keep the coverage they have now (at first he said people wouldn’t have to change; now he’s saying the government wouldn’t “force” them to change, which is a different animal altogether).

There are still a lot of people out there who believe that Obamacare will cover those without coverage and leave almost everyone else alone. They don’t realize that while the government may not force them to switch to the public option, it can certainly take steps to eliminate any other options.

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