that harvard university institut of politics poll says fifty seven percent of millennial zx disapprove of obamacare the president's approval rating is also down among young people hit discuss all of this original fowler he hosts the richard fowler show and chris bedford associate editor the daily caller both join me from washington d.c. all right words you sum up briefly why you like obamacare well thanks for having me larry i think it's more than liking it it's with the impacts of this law already three million people back on their parents' health insurance health care insurance young people who had preexisting conditions like asthma or early childhood arthritis or diabetes they can now get health care young women can now get birth control as part of the health care plan on on and on all the benefits of the affordable care act don't get me wrong there are some issues with the rollout of those most of the website which is why young people are sort of you know this in trepidation when it comes to engaging in rolling into cyber that doesn't mean that this is not a good thing for young pe

poll from harvard university's institute of politics and they find 54% of 18 to 29-year-olds say they president's job performance so far in his second term. and 41% say they approve. that's down 11 points since april. most of those young adults in this survey said that the economy is the most important issue, as it always seems to be. but they do say they have some concerns about the president's health care overhaul as well. john roberts has these details. he's live in atlanta. hello, john. >> good afternoon to you, shep. there's no way to sugar coat it. this is not good for the president. in fact, harvard's director of the institute of politics told me that when he saw these numbers come back, he thought, wow, this is going to make news. and here's the reason why. take a look at millennial, thos 29, say they do not support obama care. only 22% say they will sign up. and even among people who currently don't have health insurance less than a third of them plan to enroll. couple of reasons why. more than half of people think that under obama care health care costs are going to rise whi

according to the recent poll, harvard university's institute of politics put out a poll asking them do approve or disapprove of obamacare? look at the results. only 38% approve in that age bracket. and that age bracket is 18 to 29-year olds. these are the people that the kpwoepl -- that the obama campaign went after. >> look at the next one. this is spectacular and this is terrible news for the white house. these are millenials, people between 18 and 24. these are the people who can still be on their parents' health insurance, and yet 52%, a majority of them, millenials who took part in the study, would recall the president of the united states. they're worried about their future. they're worried about the political system. they're worried about the n.s.a. they're drifting away from traditional politics. they don't like the way things are going and if they had the chance, they would recall the president of the united states. >> and they also would probably around the same numbers recall everybody in congress, very disappointed. >> yeah but he's the leader. >> harvard's analysis of the

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