Obamacare Rollout Effect On Obamacare Approval? Zero.

So surely this has been a good month for opponents of Obamacare.  With the website problems surely people have come over to Republican opposition to the law.  Well . . . no.

“The last installment was taken in the third week of October, after all the problems had gotten plenty of attention. Forty-seven percent want to expand the law or keep it as it is, 37 percent want to repeal it, and the rest aren’t sure. These numbers are all within a few points of where they’ve been for a couple of years now.”

And as Paul Waldman notes, this is not a good sign for enemies of the law.

“I’m sure this is terribly disappointing for conservatives. Things could barely have gone worse, and this law they despise with such a boiling passion hasn’t been reduced in the public esteem at all. Imagine what will happen when people begin to see benefits from it.”

By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.