Here’s one of the best quotes I’ve read regarding public opinion and health care reform:
The truth is that healthcare reform is a very confusing and highly technical topic. Americans may support a policy presented in one form, but not in another. Americans may approve of certain individual policies of Obamacare right now, but may not once a strenuous debate takes place. For many, Obamacare remains for the most part an abstraction, which they find hard to judge without having directly felt the effect of several key measures, such as the individual mandate.
Keep these words in mind as both political parties do their damnedest to spin tomorrow’s Supreme Court decision. Most Americans simply don’t spend much time thinking about this stuff and they really shouldn’t have to. They just know that the current health care system is increasingly broken and they want it fixed. Whatever happens tomorrow, those attitudes won’t change anytime soon.
