By Dave Andrusko

Pro-abortion President Barack Obama
Gallup reported this morning that a total of 52% of Americans want ObamaCare repealed (32%) or scaled back (20%). The question that jumps out is clear. If major Obama/Democratic constituencies are bailing out on ObamaCare, what becomes the tipping point when a majority becomes 60% or even higher?
As we posted on Wednesday, 57 percent of millennials (those 18-29) disapprove of Obamacare. Forty percent say saying it will worsen their quality of care and a majority believing it will drive up costs.
On Thursday, we posted from results of a poll taken by the Kaiser Family Foundation. That poll found that a total of 50% of college-educated white women either have a “very unfavorable” view of ObamaCare (40%) or “somewhat unfavorable” (10%). Among white women without a college education, a total of 63% have a “very unfavorable” (50%) view of the law while an additional 13% view ObamaCare “somewhat unfavorably.” Only one in six (16%) have a favorable view of the law.
The Obama administration clearly feels if it announces loudly and often enough that Healthcare.gov is “fixed,” the tide of criticism will wane rather than wax. But….
(1) Among those who have chosen health plans through the online federal insurance marketplace, fully one-third contain errors. That could (and likely does) mean they might not get the coverage they’re expecting in January.
(2) What about the states that have gone their own way? According to POLITICO, “Many of these 14 states and the District of Columbia have been eager to tout the success of their own exchanges compared with the bungled federal portal, but they now appear to be worrying about back-end problems similar to those afflicting HealthCare.gov. It’s a new twist in the unfolding saga of so-called 834 forms — industry jargon for the application files that insurers receive when someone signs up for coverage through an exchange. Insurers in Kentucky and New York, for example, say they’ve received flawed 834 enrollment forms from their local exchanges, though the extent of the errors is unclear. Washington state has already had to correct thousands of 834s with faulty information about federal tax credits. … It’s uncertain how deep the problems go, in part, because the states themselves aren’t sure — and are reluctant to divulge much about their technical challenges.”
(3) An unknown but large number of Americans (estimated by POLITICO at 4-5 million) have had their insurance policies cancelled. Even if there is a so-called surge in enrollment (by no means a given), “it’s not out of the question that the Obama administration could face the worst-case scenario on Jan. 1: the number of uninsured Americans actually goes up,” according to David Nather. “[E]ven with all the variables, one thing is for certain: the Obama administration has one seriously long road to travel from the signups it has now to the number who will likely need to replace their coverage. That’s a bad place to be, given that the point of the law was to cover more people, not fewer people.”
(4) The President is in a deep hole with public opinion. Majorities doubt his honesty and his competency, as we have discussed at length. If the promised improvement proves either minor or short-lasting, those numbers will only grow.