"All of them are tied together by a single thread: they've been the main targets of the conservative misinformation campaign against the Affordable Care Act. The tea party folks have never spent much time talking about low-income subsidies or tax credits or Medicaid expansion or pre-existing conditions. And guess what? Most people know how the law works in those areas. But conservatives do spend a lot of time rabble-rousing about death panels and illegal immigrants and Medicare cuts. And they also spend a lot of time bewailing the "government takeover" of healthcare, which includes things like the public option ("a new government run insurance plan") and a supposed mandate that small businesses will all be required to offer health insurance for their employees. Sure enough, those are the areas where misunderstanding is highest." - Anika from Bookmarklet

This isn't really news or shocking, I suppose. You can see just from what people say here how incredibly wrong they are about ACA (when they claim to have read the bill, it's obvious they are lying), but they don't care about facts, just scoring points in dumb internet arguments. OTOH, there are lot of people who just don't care to know. The topic is boring and many may already have health insurance via their employers. The easy answer would be for the WH to send out surrogates to explain facts, but looking at guest lineups on "news" programs, facts aren't of the interest to them either. After all, they have health insurance either via employers are because they're from a moneyed family. - Anika