A new Gallop survey found that more Americans are inclined to repeal the healthcare law than not. Out of more than 1,000 adults, 47 percent of participants favored the repeal of Obamacare. However, 42 percent of respondents would like the law to stay in place. The supreme court will start to hear arguments next March, and the result will be key to President Obama’s campaign.
“Probably no court case in modern times would have the impact this would,” said Ed Rollins as quoted in The Los Angeles Times. If Obama is victorious, then he will be able to claim that he passed a law that no President has been able to since the Roosevelt year. If he is not, then the Republican party will chalk up another victory in a crucial election year.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would extend health coverage to more than 30 million uninsured Americans by expanding Medicaid and establishing special state-run insurance markets called exchanges. Republicans say the law will increase government regulation, raise taxes and impose more stringent restraints on growing businesses.
Supporters say that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will eventually lower the costs of healthcare over time and provide millions of families with medical care who currently are without it. “If we’re going to have a fully functional system by 2014…it’s important to put this to rest once and for all,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Monday as quoted by ABC News. Sebelius added that “we are confident that the law is constitutional, will be upheld as constitutional.”
