Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Most Americans don’t know anything about this summer’s Obamacare Supreme Court case



The court will decide whether it is illegal for the government to provide subsidies in the 34 states that have not set up their own exchanges are are using HealthCare.gov, the federal health insurance marketplace, instead.

“Right now, the public is not really aware of this, and they’re not thinking this has much to do with their lives,” Mollyann Brodie, who heads Kaiser’s polling operation, told the Washington Post. She said these numbers have not shifted much over time either, not gaining traction as the court’s decision grew closer.

But when poll respondents are given information by Kaiser about what will happen if the court rules against the Obama administration, Brodie said, “their gut instinct is that it doesn’t make sense that residents in some states would get something different from residents in other states.”