Why would people be clamoring for “reform” when da gummint just passed “reform” earlier this year?
Ezra Klein: Health-care reform getting more, not less, popular
…that’s two recent polls showing a lift in the bill’s popularity, taking it from a slight plurality in opposition to a slight plurality in favor. Two polls is enough to make me curious, so I headed over to Pollster.com, and it does seem we’re looking at a trend. The site’s aggregate chart of recent polls doesn’t yet show support overwhelming opposition, but it does show support rising and opposition falling. In fact, the bill’s spread looks better than at any point in the past year.
The question is: why would health care “reform” be getting more popular now? We already passed health care “reform.” ObamaCare’s the status quo now: it’s no longer “reform.”
Not to mention: ObamaCare’s major provisions haven’t taken effect yet, and won’t until…what was it? 2014?
Ah, maybe that’s it. People don’t actually see the “reform.” Therefore, the forces that led people to think they wanted socialized medicine in the first place still exist, even though we’ve already passed socialized medicine (or one giant step thereto).
Therefore, that segment of the public which thinks it’s the government’s job to provide for them (against all evidence that when the government provides for the people, the people are worse off) still feels like they’re not getting anything, and therefore polling is edging upwards.
Or maybe polls just suck. Dunno.
More Ezra: who cares what senior citizens think? They’ll be dead soon, anyway.
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