The Kaiser Health Tracking Poll in May skews Democratic by 9 percentage points, yet its results among those who feel strongly (either way) go against Obamacare by 10 percentage points.  The monthly Kaiser pollincludes 34 percent Democrats and only 25 percent Republicans. Despite this lopsided sampling, however, far more respondents hold “very unfavorable” views about Obamacare (29 percent) than “very favorable” views about it (19 percent). 

The Kaiser poll also shows the following: More people say they have already been “negatively” affected by Obamacare (18 percent) than “positively” affected by it (14 percent). More people think the following groups would be “worse off” under Obamacare than “better off”: middle class Americans, seniors, their given state, and the country as a whole. And 89 percent describe their experience with their current private health insurance plan as “positive” (to only 10 percent “negative”) — with 44 percent describing that experience as “very positive” and only 2 percent describing it as “very negative.”  

Again, these findings are from a poll that includes more than 4 Democrats for every 3 Republicans.  

Now, if Republicans would just produce that replacement...

The latest Rasmussen poll of likely voters shows that, by a margin of 17 percentage points (55 to 38 percent), Americans support the repeal of Obamacare. Repeal is supported by men and women; by those in their 30s, 40s, 50s to mid-60s, and mid-60s on up; and by all income groups (ranging from under-$20,000 to over-$100,000 a year). In all, 43 percent of likely voters (71 percent of Republicans, 43 percent of independents, and 13 percent of Democrats) “strongly favor” repeal, while only 26 percent of likely voters (49 percent of Democrats, 24 percent of independents, and 5 percent of Republicans) “strongly oppose” it.

President Obama has claimed that Obamacare would lower health costs, reduce deficits, and improve the quality of health care. Likely voters, however, don’t believe that this is the case on any of these counts. By a margin of three to one (54 to 18 percent), they think Obamacare would raise, rather than lower, health costs. By a margin of better than three to one (53 to 17 percent), they think Obamacare would raise, rather than lower, deficits. And by a margin of better than two to one (48 to 20 percent), they think Obamacare would reduce, rather than improve, the quality of care. 

The American people are in good company in not buying Obama’s claims about his signature legislation. His administration’s own Medicare chief actuary says that Obamacare would raise overall U.S. health costs, while the Congressional Budget Office says that by repealing Obamacare, the House budget would save $1.403 trillion in new spending over the next decade — more than $1 trillion of which would be saved in the final five years of that decade alone.   

In other words, without repeal, Obamacare’s costs would skyrocket — from $66 billion in 2014 to $233 billion in 2021, and upward from there — even under the CBO’s rather conservative estimates. With a national debt of $14.380 trillion and counting, it’s no wonder that Americans support repeal.