The Affordable Care Act is more popular now than when Obama was president

[ffr]

Obamacare appears to have become more popular since Barack Obama left office.

Some 55% of Americans support the ACA, a record high since the law went into effect a decade ago, according to a new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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In 2010, when Obamacare was enacted, 46% of the public had a favorable opinion of it and 40% had an unfavorable view. Kaiser, a San Francisco-based nonprofit focused on health policy; it has conducted monthly public opinion polls on the ACA since it was enacted in March 2010.

Ahead of the ACA’s ten-year anniversary, three researchers from the foundation’s public opinion team also published an in-depth analysis of the 102 polls conducted that was published in Health Affairs, a peer-reviewed journal. (That did not include this latest poll released on Friday.)

“People who felt that the law had helped them were more likely to say that it had allowed someone in their family to get or keep insurance or made it easier to get health care,” the report said. - Marketwatch

Takeaway: Democrats and democratic policies are more divisive prior to them becoming both more popular and admired. So don't listen to the RW media apparatus. They predicted and got it all wrong once again!

[ooky]

1. My takeaway.

We should be running ads every day that a Democratic administration will go to court to protect it while the Republican candidate wants to go back to court to finish the job he started to kill it.

[brewens]

2. I'm disabled. Before I qualified for Medicare which kicks in the first of the month, the

only reason I had insurance was the ACA. I got about a thousand dollar tax credit monthly, so I could just barely afford my share.

There are a great many right-wingers taking advantage of that, some who may not even realize it's Obamacare. More likely that's just denial. How the hell else would you think you got that big of a tax credit?

[ooky]

3. I did the same thing.

Retired at 61 due to health reasons. My monthly premium was $1300. With the subsidy, I only paid $17. The rest of the entire amount was subsidized.

[Bengus81]

9. And for most like myself Medicare is much more expensive.....

If you also take out a supplemental plan which most do when your 65+. My supplemental alone is almost $150 per month. But...to be 66 and try and somehow get health insurance out in the wild west of the Insurance industrial complex it would never be affordable. Thank you President Johnson and Dems!

[MaryMagdaline]

4. President Obama always said once the opposition began to like Obamacare it would not longer be

called Obamacare. ACA is its!

[genxlib]

5. Obamacare was never as unpopular as advertised.

Very few polls bothered to ask why the respondents didn't like it.

When they did, there was always a sizable contingent that said that it didn't go far enough.

If the numbers were broken out differently, it would have been ACA or better at ~55% to ~30%

[maxsolomon]

6. The Tea Party hysteria has faded.

It no longer seems like the end of Liberty or some such tripe.

But the law itself has been crippled by Rubio's skullduggery and relentless attacks in the courts.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Because half the people who hated it were liberals who wanted it to do more...

[GemDigger]

8. Out of a multi thousand dollar combined bill, I only paid ...

$4.00. I loved my ObamaCares.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. K&R

[democrattotheend]

11. I bet Republicans regret coining the term "Obamacare"

They used it as a derogatory term, but Obama brilliantly decided to own it, and now that the program has become more popular, it prevents Trump from claiming credit the way he's doing with Obama's economic recovery.