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by Scarblac 1964 days ago
Many people in the UK voted for Brexit "to get rid of EU red tape", but when questioned were unable to name a single specific regulation they wanted to get rid of. Now UK businesses are swamped in customs red tape that the EU was designed to remove within the internal market.

It's a result of years of being lied to by politicians with an anti-EU agenda. It's very similar.
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bobthepanda 1964 days ago
This isn't all that unfamiliar in the US. There are many people against "Obamacare", but once you start actually polling on the individual pieces that it entails it turns out it is very popular.

There is a reason why despite two years of full Republican control they could not agree on the repeal they kept banging on about for the better part of eight years, and why repealing Obamacare was not really talked about in 2020 lest Democrats successfully bludgeon Republicans over taking away their constituents' health insurance.

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areyousure 1964 days ago
Depends which "individual piece", especially whether it was on the side that "spent money" or correspondingly "raised taxes". The individual mandate polled as 43% "very unfavorable" and 20% "somewhat unfavorable". Perhaps that's why it was, in fact, repealed.

https://www.kff.org/health-costs/poll-finding/kaiser-health-...

See also the discussion in this thread, which mentions other unpopular provisions like the Cadillac tax (also repealed!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24410307

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bobthepanda 1964 days ago
Parts of it have been repealed, sure, but what Republicans were calling for were a full scrapping of Obamacare (and replacement) including the parts that people liked, like the ban on denying coverage pre-existing conditions or charging those people more.

They backtracked on this after Democrats wielded this as a cudgel in the 2018 blue wave.

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munk-a 1964 days ago
Hilariously in the US the ACA (Affordable Care Act) polls better than ObamaCare - there is a large portion of the population that has experienced the benefits of the ACA and support that act while also continuing to advocate for repealing ObamaCare.
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