Happy Monday folks,
President Obama is getting hit on multiple fronts today, as polling indicates that the American people are fed up with the agenda of him and his liberal allies. For example, Gallup recently reported that Obama’s approval rating has dropped down to 44.5 percent in the 19th quarter of his presidency (a decline of percentage points from last quarter).
And a new CNN/ORC International poll shows that the Obama/Reid/Pelosi healthcare law has not picked up much momentum since the exchanges opened three weeks ago.
The Affordable Care Act is still opposed by 56 percent of the country, and with so many salient problems, it’s reasonable to expect that the disapproval numbers of the law will continue to climb.
On the tech side, “Millions of Americans have spent countless hours in frustration trying to use the federal Web site, healthcare.gov, and its extensive problems have become a political crisis for the administration,” according to Sharon LaFraniere, Ian Austen, and Robert Pear of The New York Times.
Even though the Adminsitration has had over three and half years to prepare for the exchanges, “contractors worry that the system may be weeks away from operating smoothly, people close to the project say.”
An even larger (and less talked about) problem with Obamacare has been the forced cancellation of insurance policies for hundreds of thousands of people. According to Anna Gorman and Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News, the cancellation notices “have shocked many consumers in light of President Barack Obama’s promise that people could keep their plans if they liked them.
American families deserve transparent policy that actually delivers what it promises. It’s unfair to hard-working people who play by the rules and are just trying to get by. “Countless hours in frustration,” whether spent trying to sign up on a broken website, or looking for another job because your hours have been cut back, should not need to be felt by the American people.
Seize the day.