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You can say many things about polls. Let’s try this: If you agree with a poll’s findings, you take those findings to heart; if you disagree with them, you dismiss the numbers as being cooked up, fabricated.<\/p>\n

I’ll go with the former on the latest CNN poll on the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/07\/poll-obamacare-working-cnn-109272.html?hp=r10<\/p>\n

A new poll suggests that most Americans believe the ACA is working, if not for them personally, then for someone else.<\/p>\n

Does that end the dispute over President Obama’s signature piece of domestic legislation? Hardly. It’s still going strong because critics want to keep the pot boiling.<\/p>\n

House Speaker John Boehner says he’s going to sue the president over changes Obama made in the law that delayed the employer mandate provision in the ACA — which Boehner and other critics actually favor. Still, the speaker is mad because the president acted under his own executive authority.<\/p>\n

Whatever.<\/p>\n

The new poll, though, does bring to mind another political quandary for opponents of Obamacare. Do they really want to roll back a law that has provided health insurance for an estimated 9 million Americans that previously didn’t have it? Do they really and truly want to take back something the federal government has provided?<\/p>\n

This is perhaps the stickiest issue facing ACA critics as they campaign for public office across the land.<\/p>\n

We still keep hearing talk of attempting to repeal the act — with nothing to replace it. Congress has voted a bazillion times to repeal the ACA; it keeps coming up short. When will it end?<\/p>\n

I’ll stick with my mantra that the Affordable Care Act is working. Yes, the rollout was tough, but it got fixed.<\/p>\n

I also will suggest that the latest poll exposes Speaker Boehner’s lawsuit for being the frivolous legal action it is. <\/p>\n\n

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You can say many things about polls. Let’s try this: If you agree with a poll’s findings, you take those findings to heart; if you disagree with them, you dismiss the numbers as being cooked up, fabricated. I’ll go with the former on the latest CNN poll on the Affordable Care Act. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/07\/poll-obamacare-working-cnn-109272.html?hp=r10 A new … Continue reading Obamacare is working, poll says<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164,540,1662,2523,3376,3377],"class_list":["post-6189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-barack-obama","tag-executive-authority","tag-john-boehner","tag-obamacare","tag-obamacare-lawsuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}