Americans Are Warming Up to Obamacare
Source: Bloomberg
The fight over Obamacare in Washington is as fierce as ever, with a Republican budget plan that would repeal the health-care law Democrats passed five years ago. In the rest of the country, opposition to the law appears to be easing.
The gap between favorable and unfavorable views of the Affordable Care Act is the narrowest in more than two years, according to a poll released today, March 19, by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The poll of 1,503 U.S. adults found 43 percent opposed to Obamacare and 41 percent in favor. With a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, the result was essentially an even split. Those in favor most often cited expanded access to insurance, while opponents cited cost.
Negative views of the law increased in the months after October 2013, when the sign-up website healthcare.gov and some state insurance marketplaces were crippled by technology failures. Now the government reports that some 16.4 million Americans have gained insurance coverage under the law.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-19/obamacare-americans-are-warming-up-to-the-health-law
I expect the numbers to continue to improve as the wrinkles are ironed out, more folks enjoy the benefits, and the flawed rollout is forgotten.
I will oppose any politician who works to undermine it and support every politician who works to strengthen it with ever fiber of my being.