{"id":170,"date":"2012-10-27T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2012-10-27T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T00:19:00","slug":"partisanship-guides-american-attitudes-on-health-care-reform-dc-breaking-local-news-weather-sports-fox-5-wttg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Partisanship guides American attitudes on health-care reform – DC Breaking Local News Weather Sports FOX 5 WTTG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Partisanship guides American attitudes on health-care reform <\/a><\/p>\n

Predictably, individual views on the law’s effects — for good or ill — also fell along party lines. Twenty-two percent of Democrats say the ACA has had an overall positive effect on their lives, compared to only 4 percent of Republicans. Similarly, 42 percent of Republicans deem the overall effect as negative, compared with 9 percent of Democrats. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Republicans are much more likely to see negative effects of the ACA, including some effects (increased taxes or a decline in quality of care) which are almost certainly not linked to the Affordable Care Act,” Taylor said. “Democrats tend to see positive effects that [also] may be real or imagined.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although the poll numbers appear mixed, Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA in Washington, D.C., believes that public attitudes will lean more toward the positive as 2014 approaches and more of the law’s key elements are enacted. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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