Americans dislike Obama-care

Apparently, the more people know about the massive health-care reform law that passed earlier this year and was signed by the president (as pictured below), the less they like it. The latest poll numbers don’t look so good.

Check out this Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted the week before Federal Judge Henry Hudson ruled that parts of the law are unconstitutional. It found 52 percent overall saying they don’t like the law, with only 43 percent in favor.
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found 68 percent want to repeal the section that requires everyone to buy insurance – the section Judge Hudson struck down.
Naturally, the results fall somewhere along partisan lines, with Republicans overwhelmingly opposed to the law. But the overall support isn’t good. Here are some other poll results available on RealClearPolitics.com. As you can see, the favorable ratings range from 34 percent to a high of 44 percent, which was from the Democratic Party-aligned Public Policy Poling.
In other polling news, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey found Americans really do like it when President Obama moves more toward the center. Fully 63 percent of Democrats said so. Also, most Americans think he got the message sent by the last election. (Read it here.)
Health reform, of course, was not a centrist effort. No attempt was made to compromise with Republicans. No wonder Americans don’t like it. They realize that one-sided legislation typically ends up being no good.