The Kaiser Foundation has tracked Americans’ favorability of the new health care law, the Affordable Care Act, since it was passed. This month has particularly bad news, according to their report, as support for the law is the at the lowest point in their polling.
After remaining roughly evenly split for most of the last year and a half, the public’s overall views on the health reform law were more negative this month. In October, about half (51 percent) say they have an unfavorable view of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), while 34 percent say they have a favorable view, a low point in Kaiser tracking polls since the law was passed….
Consistent with the overall decline in favorability of the ACA, the public is less likely to think the law will make things better for themselves personally, and more likely to say it won’t make a difference. This month, 18 percent say they and their families will be better off under the law (down from 27 percent in September), while 44 percent say it won’t make much difference for them (up from 34 percent last month). The share who thinks they’ll personally be worse off has remained steady at around three in ten since the law was passed.
