{"id":227,"date":"2012-07-04T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2012-07-04T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T14:41:00","slug":"alternet-10-reasons-most-people-like-obamacare-once-they-know-whats-really-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"AlterNet: 10 Reasons Most People Like Obamacare Once They Know What&#8217;s Really In It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/module\/printversion\/156149\">AlterNet: 10 Reasons Most People Like Obamacare Once They Know What&#8217;s Really In It<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There  are two Affordable Care Acts. There&#8217;s the legislation passed by   Congress in 2009, and then there&#8217;s the mythical Affordable Care Act \u2013  the  perfidious \u201cgovernment takeover\u201d decried and demagogued by so many  conservatives  (and quite a few liberals). The former is quite popular,  the latter gets  decidedly mixed reviews.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t  take my word for it. A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation   found Americans split down the middle, with 41 percent approving of the  law, and  40 percent saying they didn&#8217;t like it (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kff.org\/kaiserpolls\/upload\/8285-F.pdf\">PDF<\/a>).  But then  Kaiser asked about 12 specific provisions in the legislation,  and found that, on  average, 63 percent of respondents approved of the  nuts and bolts of Obamacare.  Of the 12 measures they tested, only one \u2013  the controversial mandate to carry  health insurance or pay a penalty \u2013  received the approval of less than half of  Americans (35 percent).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Or  consider this divide: while only 12 percent of Republicans had a  positive  view of the law overall, 47 percent, on average, viewed its  specifics favorably.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Follow the link to read the ten reasons&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AlterNet: 10 Reasons Most People Like Obamacare Once They Know What&#8217;s Really In It There are two Affordable Care Acts. There&#8217;s the legislation passed by Congress in 2009, and then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=227\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AlterNet: 10 Reasons Most People Like Obamacare Once They Know What&#8217;s Really In It&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,21,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defending-ppaca","category-ppaca","category-right-wing-noise-machine"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}