Two Polls Show Highest Support Of Affordable Care Act Since 2010

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By MATT SHUHAM Published FEBRUARY 24, 2017, 12:16 PM EDT

Two new polls released this week show that support of the Affordable Care Act is at its highest level since 2010.

A tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, released Friday, said 48 percent of respondents felt favorably toward the health care law, as opposed to 42 percent who felt unfavorably. A poll from the Pew Research Center, released Thursday, found that 54 percent of respondents approved of the law, and 43 percent disapproved, the highest approval the poll had ever recorded for the law.





Both polls noted a shift among independents in their feelings about the law: In October, according to Pew, 41 percent of independents approved of the law, compared to 53 percent in December, and the same number in February.

Kaiser found that, for the first time, independents supported the law on net: Fifty percent reported they viewed the ACA favorably, while 39 viewed it unfavorably.

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1. Those numbers would be way lower if HRC had won.

A lot of progressives were against the ACA because they wanted something that included a public option, or was otherwise less of a feed-trough for insurance companies. No chance of that happening now, though, so people are happier with what they've got.