During the campaign, President Barack Obama minimized discussion of his first term’s most consequential new law: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or what’s commonly referred to as Obamacare.
That was no accident. Undoubtedly, the campaign knew that Obamacare is, as it always has been, deeply unpopular with the American people. In fact, Obamacare epitomizes the public’s greatest concerns about this administration: the massive expansion of government and failure to deliver a new era of post-partisanship to Washington, since the law was jammed through using a party line vote and every available legislative trick. Bringing up health care risked stirring the passions that fueled the tea party’s rise and the Democrats’ defeat in 2010.
Yet, research conducted by the polling company,
inc./WomanTrend for Independent Women’s Voice (IWV) shows that health
care was an important concern for Americans on Election Day. The
president was reelected in spite of voters’ lingering distaste for
Obamacare, and the health care issue will remain a critical issue for
voters moving forward.
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