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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on April 22, 2014, 12:29:42 am
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David Axelrod: 'Angry' ObamaCare opponents are 'more mobilized' for the 2014 elections
Washington Examiner
By Justin Green
Published April 20, 2014
"Angry" Obamacare opponents are "more mobilized" for the 2014 midterm elections than the health care law's beneficiaries, according to a longtime adviser to President Obama.
David Axelrod, an Obama veteran who is now advising Britain's Labour Party, told the New York Times that Obamacare suffers from a public perception problem.
Obamacare is viewed "more as a social welfare program than a social insurance program," Axelrod said, "but that's not right because it is social insurance."
Axelrod's distinction is questionable given the massive Medicaid expansion within Obamacare, but he's right to identify the current political problem faced by his party. Core Obama constituencies, particularly young voters and minorities, tend to vote at lower levels in midterm elections, yet those same people are expected to be among the major beneficiaries of the new healthcare law.
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No big impact on "uninsured" numbers, big increase to premiums, big increase to deductibles.
Driving up the cost of medical care, not down. Few winners, many losers.