Greg Sargent notes an interesting result from CNN's latest Obamacare survey, which found that while 54 percent of Americans believe Obamacare has helped their family or other families across the country ...
... an astonishing 72 percent of Republicans, and 64 percent of conservatives, say the law hasn’t helped anyone.
Given
the drop in uninsurance rates alone, that's just delusional. But I'll cut those Republicans a wee little bit of slack, or at least I'll cut them slack if they live in a state that refused to fully implement Obamacare, because, as you can see in this chart...
... the key to really making Obamacare work is to actually implement it, including its Medicaid expansion. States controlled by Republicans who think Obamacare sucks generally refused to expand Medicaid. And in those states, Obamacare has not been as big a success as it has in other states.
But the key thing to remember is that the reason it hasn't helped as many people in those states as it has in other states isn't that Obamacare sucks: It's that—thanks to the Supreme Court—many Republicans refuse to implement it.