Plurality now approves of Obamacare

[Likely Voter]

This chart is exemplifies everything wrong with politics:

[Likely Voter]

Yea, "No Impact" should really be 80-90% in all three categories.

True, unless you have kids and/or a pre-existing condition then you are almost sure to be in the 'helped' category.

But the worst thing is that there is a massive partisan divide in the 'hurt' category. I would love to see how those people said they were hurt. Sure some (very few) people come out losers, but there is no way that it is weighted by party to such a significant amount.

[Likely Voter]

Yea, "No Impact" should really be 80-90% in all three categories.

True, unless you have kids and/or a pre-existing condition then you are almost sure to be in the 'helped' category.

But the worst thing is that there is a massive partisan divide in the 'hurt' category. I would love to see how those people said they were hurt. Sure some (very few) people come out losers, but there is no way that it is weighted by party to such a significant amount.

Many people who already had generous employer-sponsored plans that exceeded the minimum Obamacare standards are finding that they now cover less with more cost sharing.  They are generally upper-middle class with white collar jobs and probably vote R outside of the Northeast and CA.

yes I am aware of that but there is no way that adds up to 38% of Republicans. I suspect that most of that 38% think their taxes have been raised and/or Medicare benefits have been cut (both of which are untrue, unless they were on one of those 'Cadillac' plans). Just look at the chart over awareness of the costs of Obamacare, the ignorance goes up most with Republicans.

[Likely Voter]

Of course Obamacare has some 'losers', notably those on Cadillac plans and young healthy people who dont want insurance or want those cheap crappy plans that got cancelled.  My point is that this doesn't add up to 22% of Americans and more notably it isn't heavily distributed to Republicans. There are just more Republicans that think they are being hurt. My bet is that this is mostly because of the misinformation in right wing media and especially the lie that Obamacare was cutting Medicare benefits (used extensively in the last three elections).

Again this chart shows that there is a high correlation between party and lack of knowledge on the law: