{"id":2220,"date":"2012-07-10T08:33:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T12:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2012-07-10T08:34:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T12:34:23","slug":"public-opinion-snapshot-public-says-keep-or-expand-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/07\/public-opinion-snapshot-public-says-keep-or-expand-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Opinion Snapshot: Public Says Keep or Expand Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public\u2019s view of the law is quite complex: Reservations co-exist with sentiment that most of the law\u2019s changes are necessary and perhaps even need to be expanded.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest edition of the Kaiser Health Tracking poll, for example, 53 percent of respondents said Obamacare should either be kept as is (25 percent) or expanded (28 percent) versus 38 percent who thought the law should be either repealed and replaced with a Republican-sponsored alternative (18 percent) or repealed and not replaced (20 percent).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2012\/07\/snapshot_070912.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/snapshot_070912_1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2012\/07\/snapshot_070912.html\">Public Opinion Snapshot: Public Says Keep or Expand Obamacare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public\u2019s view of the law is quite complex: Reservations co-exist with sentiment that most of the law\u2019s changes are necessary and perhaps even need to be expanded. In the latest edition of the Kaiser Health Tracking poll, for example, 53 percent of respondents said Obamacare should either be kept as is (25 percent) or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,5,22],"tags":[125,123,206,319,67,1291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}