A national poll by McLaughlin & Associates (including 38% Democrats and 31% Republicans) finds that Americans overwhelmingly oppose Obamacare’s bailout provision for insurance companies and support the suspension of Obamacare’s individual mandate.
Polling finds that the most common reason people bought insurance under Obamacare is they were mandated to do so by law.
The Weekly Standard, June 4, 2014![Barack_Obama_on_phone_with_Benjamin_Netanyahu_2009-06-08[1]](http://2017project.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Barack_Obama_on_phone_with_Benjamin_Netanyahu_2009-06-081-140x130.jpg)
After President Obama said he would veto House-passed legislation to delay the individual mandate, he lawlessly delayed the mandate on his own.
The Weekly Standard, May 7, 2014
Originally projected to reduce the number of uninsured by three-eighths by 2014, Obamacare now appears to have reduced that number by only one-eighth (with most of those on Medicaid)—while hiking millions of Americans’ premiums.
Forbes, April 1, 2014Through extensions and secrecy, the administration seems to be avoiding coming clean about how many enrollees have actually paid for coverage.
Investor’s Business Daily, March 26, 2014
No amount of celebrity-driven advertising will make Obamacare attractive to the young.
The Weekly Standard, March 31, 2014President Obama has a strange notion of “the spirit of citizenship.”
National Review, January 29, 2014More companies are dropping health insurance for their part-time employees, as Obamacare incentivizes employers to push the costs of care onto the backs of taxpayers.
Washington Examiner, January 23, 2014The weaker Obamacare’s individual mandate gets, the more incentive there is for Americans to forgo Obamacare’s overpriced plans.
New York Post, January 19, 2014
Bill Kristol discusses the 2017 Project’s study on Obamacare’s subsidies and penalties, highlighting how President Obama’s centerpiece legislation offers a terrible deal for the young.
YouTube, November 29, 2013
Under Obamacare, will the young be better off paying the premium, or paying the fine?
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Doing the direct opposite of what public policy should be trying to do, Obamacare discourages marriages and even encourages divorce.
The Atlantic, November 5, 2013If Republicans were to better communicate their rather moderate position in the budget battles, they would likely find most Americans to be in agreement with them.
The Weekly Standard, October 11, 2013
With Obamacare’s disastrous rollout underway and drawing public ire, the last thing the GOP should do is “pivot” away from its push to delay the individual mandate.
National Review, October 9, 2013
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius explains how individuals can get a 1-year Obamacare delay: “pay a fine.”
The Daily Show, October 7, 2013