- More Americans Are For Expanding Than Repealing Health Care Reform
- [Alas, a blog - Ampersand]
A new poll by Kaiser and Harvard shows the problem the Republicans have: the only thing as unpopular as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would be to repeal the Affordable Care Act. 28% of Americans want to expand the ACA; 19% want to keep the ACA as-is; 23% want to repeal it and replace it with a Republican-sponsored alternative; and 20% want to repeal it.
Put another way, 47% of Americans want to keep or expand the ACA, and 43% want it either repealed or replaced.
Republican’s plan B — sabotaging the law by defunding it — is even less popular:…
…majorities of Americans favor nearly all the provisions of the ACA when asked about them one by one; everyone wants to do something about the deficit but there aren’t majorities in favor of cutting any specific programs (other than foreign aid, which we spend practically nothing on anyway).
- Poll: New Yorkers support the freedom to marry by record margin
- [Prop 8 Trial Tracker - adambink]
- Thomas Jefferson Is A Sometimes Scholar
- [Pandagon - Jesse Taylor]
Remember, young Pandagonians: when Thomas Jefferson said “separation of church and state”, it was just some part of a letter that’s nowhere in the text of our Constitution.
When Thomas Jefferson said “nullification”, it was a deeply ingrained part of our Constitutional structure [link], despite never actually becoming effective law anywhere in the United States.
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- Historic Women’s and LGBT Clinic May Close – The Bay Citizen
- San Francisco's Lyon Martin Health Services is in financial straits after 32 years
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[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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