Ten days ago on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Joy Cardin Week in Review (and subsequently on Twitter) I was criticized for failing to sing the praises of ObamaCare. (Specifically by one mental and moral midget known for espousing causes that lose elections in Wisconsin.)

Well, those reactionary conservatives known as National Public Radio conducted a poll, reported by Powerline:

National Public Radio collaborated with Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to survey Americans’ recent experience with health care. As to the Affordable Care Act, the survey’s findings are damning. They suggest that Obamacare has been worse than a complete waste of money.

This is the survey’s only question directly on Obamacare. Most respondents say that Obamacare hasn’t affected them; where it has affected them, most say the law’s impact has been harmful:

The promises that President Obama made about the ACA–cheaper premiums! lower co-pays and deductibles! better coverage!–have completely failed to materialize. This isn’t a surprise, of course, but it is nice to see it so copiously documented:

Remember how we were all supposed to save $2,500 a year in health insurance premiums? Only 4% say they have saved anything, and those respondents are probably wrong. For the vast majority, Obamacare has either done nothing, or has increased the cost of health care, counting premiums, deductibles and co-pays. Good going, Barry!

The federal government has had its share of failures over the years, but it is hard to think of a federal program that has proved such a comprehensive disaster, in such a short period of time, as the Affordable Care Act. Which, by the way, still hasn’t been fully implemented, as the Democrats have postponed some of its more baleful effects until 2017. So the number of people who are hurt by Obamacare, e.g. by losing the employer-based coverage with which they were content, is destined to rise.

My counterpart on the show claimed a slowing of health insurance cost increases, which appears from this to be a false claim. She also claimed the importance of banning pre-existing condition exclusions from coverage, which is important for those who have or have had serious illness, but which could have been fixed by a bill banning pre-existing conditions as a reason for denying coverage. And, you’ll notice, American voters thought so highly of ObamaCare that they punted Democrats from control of the House of Representatives (plus Wisconsin’s governorship and both houses of the Legislature) one election later. Good going, Barry!

This didn’t come up Friday, but apparently at the Milwaukee Loves Obama and ObamaCare days earlier a self-identified Republican who claimed to have never voted for Obama extolled the virtues of ObamaCare because it covered him during recovery from an autoimmune disease. I’m certainly happy he recovered. I wonder how he feels about his health care being paid for by the decreasing number of working Americans in this country (U6 unemployment over 10 percent) in the ObamaCare economy whose health insurance now covers less but costs more. I also wonder how he feels about health care providers leaving health care not because they don’t want to work in medicine anymore, but because they don’t want to deal with the government and insurance companies in the ObamaCare world.