Jonathan Cohn considers how opposition to the Affordable Care Act is impacting public opinion

Keith and Jonathan Cohn, senior editor of The New Republic and a senior fellow at Demos, discuss the public relations battle raging around the Affordable Care Act in the weeks leading up to a Supreme Court hearing on the legality of the health-care reform bill. Cohn contextualizes a revised forecast on the cost of the bill from the Congressional Budget Office and describes how skewed talking points relating to the bill are impacting public opinion: “You have this industry out there and you have the Republicans out there hammering away day after day: ‘It’s expensive. It’s going to destroy your liberty. It’s going to create death panels.’ You know, that’s going to have an effect. People are going to get confused, and it’s going to start to sink in.”