A third of Americans don't know Obamacare and ACA are the same

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A third of Americans don't know Obamacare and ACA are the same
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By Business Insider     55 mins ago in Politics
A sizable chunk of the American public seems to have some confusion about the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare law better known as Obamacare.
That is, they may not know it as Obamacare.

According to a Morning Consult poll published in The New York Times on Tuesday, just over one in three Americans surveyed did not realize that Obamacare and the ACA were the same thing.

Seventeen percent of respondents incorrectly said they were two different policies, while 18 percent said they did not know whether they were the same or different.

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[Frank Cannon]

1/3 of Americans also believe in Martians, Bigfoot and Kim Kardashian.

[Cripplecreek]

Yet we allow and even encourage these morons to vote.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

To play devil's advocate, in a sense they are different:


1) The ACA is the law as passed by Congress


2) Obamacare is what we have now.


I doubt many conservatives would argue that the two are one and the same.

[goatprairie]

One third of Americans don't know their hindquarters from a hole in the ground. They're called Democrats.

[Right_in_Virginia]

1/3 of Americans also believe in Martians, Bigfoot and Kim Kardashian.

You left out Hillary Clinton @Frank Cannon