Polls Claiming Americans Now Coming Around to Support Obamacare Must be Fixed

I have been hearing a lot of liberal media types claim Americans now want Obamacare. I don't believe it. I don't think most Americans want to be told by their federal government that they will engage in economic activity and they have no choice in the matter. As well, more and more companies are shrinking their healthcare coverage of employees with the coming regulations coming down the pike. Americans can't be happy about this either.

The polls are all over the place, as some polling is making the claim Americans are coming around. However, a new Fox News poll tells me to approach the polls conducted by NBC with much caution.

When asked to imagine being a lawmaker in Washington and having to vote on whether to keep the new law or repeal it, 56 percent of voters say they would vote to repeal and 39 percent to keep the law in place. Representatives in the U.S. House took that vote Wednesday and voted 245-189 to repeal the law (or 56 percent to 44 percent).

A majority of Democrats would vote to keep the health care law (67 percent), while over half of independents (56 percent) and almost all Republicans (87 percent) would repeal it.
Few voters see an upside to the new law. Some 18 percent of voters think their family would be better off under the health care law. Compare that to 14 percent who thought the law would help their family a year ago (January 2010), and a high of 22 percent who thought so in September 2009.

Twice as many -- 36 percent -- think their family will be worse off under the law.