Obamacare is turning out to be nothing like Medicare

The Exchange reports:

President Obama has defended his unpopular healthcare reform law by noting there was also strident opposition to Medicare when it passed back in the 1960s. Medicare is now more popular than just about any government program, a turnabout Obama would no doubt love to see happen with Obamacare.

It’s not happening, however. Medicare had already begun to look successful just a few months after its launch, whereas Obamacare remains polarizing and unproven more than three months after going into effect, due largely to notorious problems with the federal website and the plight of several million people whose private insurance got canceled because it failed to meet minimum requirements of the new law. Only 40% of Americans approve of the Affordable Care Act, as the law is officially known, according to the Real Clear Politics polling average. And disapproval rose following the launch last October. Obama, no doubt, was hoping the opposite would happen once speculation about the law ended and Americans got their first taste of the real thing.

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