OBAMACARE GETTING UNPOPULAR AGAIN – AT 10:43 A.M. ET:   Now that repeal of Obamacare is temporarily off the table, the program is becoming unpopular again with the American people.  From IBD: 

Republicans should have read the latest ObamaCare polls before deciding to give up on repeal.

Public support for the law has dropped sharply, while most like the idea of giving states greater control over health care.

On Monday, the latest attempt to repeal and replace ObamaCare hit a wall after Maine Sen. Susan Collins came out against the Cassidy-Graham bill, joining John McCain and Rand Paul. The bill would have turned ObamaCare's subsidies into block grants, and given states wide latitude on how to regulate health insurance.

Democrats — and newly minted health care expert Jimmy Kimmel — cheered. But with repeal more or less off the table, the public's mood about ObamaCare has soured considerably.

A monthly Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that just 46% say they have a favorable view of the law — down from 52% a month ago. ObamaCare's unfavorability rating shot up from 39% in August to 44%.

According to Kaiser, "the decline in favorability is across all groups, including Democrats, independents and Republicans."

The survey was taken after the previous Senate repeal attempt failed, but before the current one collapsed.

What could cause the sudden shift in public opinion? Maybe it's because liberal activists and the media have stopped propagandizing the public about how great ObamaCare is, and now people are starting to once again notice its fatal flaws.

Namely: the lack of choice and the exploding premiums that are pricing millions of middle-class families out of the insurance market.

COMMENT:  Obamacare will only get worse because it's running out of money.  It was poorly designed from the start.

However, the GOP botched repeal.  It had seven years to come up with an alternative, and didn't.  The Republicans in Congress failed, and they know it.  They now move on to tax reform, and they've got to get this right.  Americans must receive, and feel, a tax cut for 2018.  It would be great to make it retroactive to 2017.   If Republicans can't get this done, they will be goners next November.

September 27, 2017