Miami Herald: Poll: Most Floridians disapprove of federal healthcare law, half want it repealed

[Patricia M. McBride]

Interesting numbers and glad they support Governor Scott's decision not to implement those parts of this horrid bill he is now free not to implement. The thing that amazes me is the stat for 39% of the elderly supporting Obamacare, and I can only think they either don't know about the death panels or don't believe they exist. Let's hope they don't have to find out they are real and they are set to start right after the election in January. They will be paid back in spades if they are foolish enough to vote for this monster.

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By Alex Leary Tampa Bay Times
07.12.12
A majority of Florida voters disapprove of the Obama health law and half support a repeal of it, a Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times poll shows.
By Alex Leary
Tampa Bay Times
A majority of Florida voters oppose the national healthcare law and half want it repealed, a new Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9 poll shows two weeks after President Barack Obama’s signature achievement was largely upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Only 43 percent of voters statewide support the Affordable Care Act and 52 percent oppose it, with 5 percent undecided. With the exception of southeast Florida, more voters think the law will make the healthcare system worse.

More voters also favor the state opting out of provisions of the law, something Gov. Rick Scott has already said it would do.

And 50 percent want to see Republicans follow through on their vow to repeal the law, with 43 percent saying it should remain.

In perhaps the most worrisome sign for Obama and Democrats, only 39 percent of voters 65 years or older support the law. Seniors make up about 30 percent of the overall state’s electorate.

“Florida voters didn’t like it a year ago, two years ago [and] they still don’t like it,” said pollster Brad Coker. “There’s nothing there that suggests healthcare is a winner for Obama’s people.”

Obama has played down the law on the campaign trail, saying the country is ready to move past the divisive debate of two years ago. But the poll illustrates the opportunity for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to continue calls for the law’s repeal.

Romney’s “more effective trying to make healthcare one of the reasons the economy is doing poorly,” Coker said, noting that some insurers have already raised premiums in advance of the law taking full effect.

“They’re going to require all these people to have insurance, and they won’t be able to afford it and they won’t pay it, and I’ll have to pay for them,” said Republican voter Randy Gaskins, 57, a firefighter and paramedic in Gainesville. “I’m working two jobs to keep my head above water. I can’t afford this.”

The telephone survey of 800 registered Florida voters — all likely to vote in the November general election — was conducted July 9-11 for the Tampa Bay Times, Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, Bay News 9 and Central Florida News 13. The poll was conducted by Mason-Dixon, a nonpartisan, Jacksonville-based company. The margin of error is 3.5 percentage points.

The results mirror surveys in other states and show the same entrenched partisan feelings. Among Florida Democrats, 76 percent support the law; among Republicans 86 percent oppose.

Independent voters oppose it by 55 percent, with 9 percent still undecided.

Support for “Obamacare” exceeded 50 percent only in southeast Florida, with 53 percent. Tampa Bay had the lowest support, with 36 percent, although the strongest opposition came from conservative North Florida, where 61 percent oppose the law.

More women than men, 48 percent to 38 percent, favor the law and support was highest among voters age 18-34, with 57 percent. Fifty-two percent of Hispanic voters support it, while 86 percent of African-American voters do.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/12/2892871/poll-most-floridians-...

[JL Gawlik]

Have you watched the ads on TV from the government? 

They make the ACA aka Obamacare now known as the ObamaMEGATax Lo@K great. They tell you to go to their site, i have not jotted it down yet and go and see ALL the great new benefits that you will receive.

They have spent over $158 million in ads and i can guarantee that Florida is where most of it was spent because of the millions of seniors in our state. Then you have all the Progressive Marxist Demoncrats who serve as elected representatives down there, in Tampa area, etc..

George Soros has created Billion dollar PAC to go after conservatives and is mainly targeting Congressman Allen West because he is so outspoken about the Communists in Congress.

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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is fully on-board in the efforts to raise money for the “Dump West” effort. West’s Democratic opponent Patrick Murphy has raised a sizeable war chest and those donors who has given him the maximum are viewed as potential donors to the “Dump West” effort.

Conservative activists think that exposure of the Soros backed anti-West Super PAC will only spur pro-West Super-PAC activities. “We need to spend dollar for dollar with the liberals to re-elect Allen,” said Von Tausch.

Also a matter of speculation is the involvement in these efforts of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is facing a tough re-election race from Republican candidate Karen Harrington.

allenwestforcongress.com

firedebbie.com  It has a active USDebtClock count on it! LOL!

Read entire article with photos and links at:

http://shark-tank.net/2012/07/11/soros-backed-superpac-targeting-al...

West also has a great facebook page: ElectAllenWest

It truly is a shark tank out there.  I have been getting most of my news now from TeaParty, Americans ForProsperity, FreedomWorks, 9/12 Project, The Heritage Foundation, mrc.org, The Tenth Amendment Center, Aim.org , Breitbart.com , drudgereport, speaker.gov , house.gov , majorityleader.gov , and several other sources. Perhaps the word needs to get out what the cornerstone of government run healthcare really is:

“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.”

- Vladimir Lenin

Our Health Care system needs to return to just a doctor -patient relationship that is customer driven in the FREE MARKET, that is what will drive quality UP and the cost of goods and services down.

What we have now is a HUGE CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT that is taken control of our economy and turning salaries and earnings into a allowed ALLOWANCE that they control and dictate to each of what what we can and can do, when and where and how. A government that is tearing down the classes creating masses with the academia elite who know better than the average American what is better for us.

Welcome to the world of Marxism... aka Communism, Socialism, Fascism, etc., they are all the same, just different degrees of control. 

Lo@K what is happening in Europe after decades of practicing it... FAILURE. 

Getting the TRUTH/Facts out is the only way, educate each Floridian, each American to what really is going on thru the NEW MEDIA, many of the press/Media sources above that i mentioned and the citizen reporter/journalist that is growing by the day, thanks to groups like CPAC: http://www.franklincenterhq.org/watchdog-wire/