The Affordable Care Act

The healthcare law that the Supreme Court is likely to kill tomorrow?  Republicans love it.

–Reuters/Ipsos found that 80 percent of self-identified Republicans support the idea of healthcare exchanges — pooling health insurance and distributing it among recipients to get lower group rates.

–Around 52 percent of Republicans like the idea of forcing corporations to offer health insurance plans to employees.

–The same percentage of Republicans support allowing young people to stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26.

–Nearly 60 percent of Republicans support that idea of government subsidies to help middle and working class families pay for health insurance.

–The pre-existing conditions language in the law? A massive 78 percent of registered we-hate-Obamacare Republicans support that part of the law.

In other words, Republicans — more so than the rest of the population — hate the law, but love everything in the law.

By the way, independent swing voters? They support the above provisions by nearly unanimous margins — in the 70 and 80 percentile range.

So why are we on the verge of losing something that benefits tens of millions of Americans, contains ideas proposed by both Democrats and Republicans, and reduces the deficit by lowering healthcare costs?

Because it was President Obama’s initiative. Because FOX News has constantly maligned these popular provisions since they were proposed. Because conservative leaders’ number one goal since he was elected is the defeat of the President this November. Because they would rather that no one get these benefits if it means that Obama can count this as a success.

Their hatred of the man is about to screw millions of Americans. And way too many Americans are too ignorant of what’s actually in the law to stop them.