“Supporters of ‘Medicare for All’ now outnumber opponents by nearly 2-to-1,” according to a new survey of U.S. adults from the Axios-Ipsos American Health Index. “Two-thirds of all survey respondents — and half of Republicans — said the federal government should be willing to spend more tax dollars to lower health care costs for Americans.”

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    I bet more support could be had if the name were focus grouped to appeal to the same people that didn’t like Obamacare until it was renamed

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      It was called Affordable Care Act before Republicans nicknamed it Obamacare. Are you getting your chronology backwards, or did it have a third name?

      Anyway, naming things better won’t work on that group, because you can’t force Fox News to use the real name and not some derogatory nickname.

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        No, not chronologically, it’s just the bit- “Jimmy Kimmel: Obamacare vs. Affordable Care Act Prank” wrote it that way.