{"id":6226,"date":"2017-04-11T09:45:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T14:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6226"},"modified":"2017-04-11T09:45:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T14:45:57","slug":"race-and-support-for-the-affordable-care-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2017\/04\/11\/race-and-support-for-the-affordable-care-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Race and Support for the Affordable Care Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6228\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/taedc\/32730324780\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6228\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2017\/04\/32730324780_36f77b1ce2_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2017\/04\/32730324780_36f77b1ce2_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2017\/04\/32730324780_36f77b1ce2_z-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Ted Eytan, Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within the last decade, and particularly in the past few months, the Affordable Care Act &#8212; dubbed \u201cObamacare\u201d &#8212; has been <em>such<\/em> a hot topic that it might be running a fever. Interestingly, ever since Trump and congressional Republicans tried &#8212; unsuccessfully &#8212; to repeal Obamacare and replace it with what commentators have called \u201cGOPcare,\u201d support for Obamacare has been on the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rise<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> But why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent article from\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/03\/24\/politics\/obamacare-double-standard\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CNN<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0suggests that it might have something to do with increased support among working class whites<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In the past, especially in\u00a0Republican attacks directed at\u00a0former President Obama, the ACA was cast as something pushed by the first president of color to help people of color. Recent media coverage of town halls and debates centering on Obamacare, however, has shown that poor whites are realizing that they would also stand to lose their health care if the ACA is repealed. Howard University sociologist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.judylubin.com\/\">Judy Lubin<\/a>\u00a0explains,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen you see white working-class Americans saying that I&#8217;m benefiting and my family is getting help from the Affordable Care Act, you start to hear &#8216;repair&#8217; not &#8216;repeal,&#8217; \u2026 Whites standing up in support of a policy changes the dynamics of the conversation.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the last decade, and particularly in the past few months, the Affordable Care Act &#8212; dubbed \u201cObamacare\u201d &#8212; has been such a hot topic that it might be running a fever. Interestingly, ever since Trump and congressional Republicans tried &#8212; unsuccessfully &#8212; to repeal Obamacare and replace it with what commentators have called \u201cGOPcare,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,85,14],"tags":[16402,39113,16403,39115,39111,96161],"class_list":["post-6226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-politics","category-race","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-health","tag-obamacare","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-working-class-whites"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6231,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions\/6231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}