* From that recent Rasmussen Results poll of Illinoisans that we discussed yesterday…

* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of the new health care law?

Very favorable 17%
Somewhat favorable 27%
Somewhat unfavorable 14%
Very unfavorable 37%
Not sure 5%

So, 44 percent favorable, 51 percent unfavorable. Obamacare is upside down here, according to one poll at least.

* Keeping that in mind, from the Tribune…

Gov. Pat Quinn wasn’t especially visible when Illinois residents were signing up for Affordable Care Act coverage last year, but on Tuesday he called getting people health coverage the “mission of a lifetime.”

Three things have changed: The state has far exceeded expectations for how many people it has signed up for health coverage, public attitudes toward the program have improved, and President Barack Obama will raise money for a re-election-seeking Quinn in Chicago on Thursday.

The Democratic governor on Tuesday announced that Illinois has signed up 468,000 people through the state’s Medicaid program, far more than the roughly 200,000 Quinn administration expected to sign up this year and also surpassing the 342,000 the state thought would ever enroll under the health care expansion. Another 217,000 in Illinois signed up for private insurance coverage via the exchange set up under the health law.

* OK, back to the Rasmussen poll. Among Democrats, 71 percent had a favorable view of the new law, as did 72 percent of African-Americans. And, as we’ve seen in this and other polling, Quinn still has some “base” problems.

* Now, on to today’s Sun-Times story…

Newly surfaced video of Republican Bruce Rauner obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times shows him telling conservative activists in Lake County last year that, as governor, he would have blocked Gov. Pat Quinn’s 2013 expansion of Medicaid. […]

“If you were governor of Illinois, would you have accepted Medicaid expansion and what do you think about the other Republican governors around the country that rejected Medicaid expansion?” Rauner was asked.

“I would not have accepted the expansion,” Rauner responded then. “I’m deeply concerned: We have a massive problem in our Medicaid system in Illinois. It’s full of corruption and abuse, and we are facing a problem that will dwarf our pension problem in about four or five years with our Medicaid system. It’s out of control, it’s corrupt.” […]

Asked Tuesday whether Rauner’s words accurately portray his position now on rolling back Medicaid, a campaign spokesman sounded a similar refrain against “fraud” and “abuse” within Medicaid but didn’t explicitly say if the candidate favored undoing Quinn’s expansion or keeping it in place.

* The video…

Discuss.