Public support for ObamaCare has reached its highest level since the healthcare law’s creation in 2010, according to a new poll.
Fifty-four percent of U.S. adults approve of the Affordable Care Act in the Pew Research Center survey released Thursday, while 43 percent disapprove and 3 percent have no opinion.
via The Hill.
How the Affordable Care Act Helps Seniors.
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Hillary Clinton’s plan for health care can best be summed up as Obamacare Plus: If elected, she would push to preserve the Affordable Care Act as-is, but she would add financial protections for struggling consumers.
via The Atlantic.
Senate Republicans are in danger of not being able to bring an ObamaCare repeal bill to the floor.
via The Hill.
Fifty-five percent of Americans now support the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a major turnaround from five months ago when 42% approved and 53% disapproved. This is the first time a majority of Americans have approved of the healthcare law, also known as Obamacare, since Gallup first asked about it in this format in November 2012.
via GALLUP.
Americans say they’re feeling healthier under Obamacare.
That was the conclusion of a major new study, in which researchers poured over the survey responses of more than 500,000 American adults spanning several years, released Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
via National Journal.
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The Senate leadership has taken the first dangerous step toward repealing the Affordable Care Act. Repeal of the ACA will pull the plug on the 30 million Americans who now depend on it for health care — not to mention the 57 million seniors and disabled who benefit every day from the ACA’s improvements to Medicare.
The Senate leadership has taken the first dangerous step toward repealing the Affordable Care Act. Repeal of the ACA will pull the plug on the 30 million Americans who now depend on it for health care — not to mention the 57 million seniors and disabled who benefit every day from the ACA’s improvements to Medicare.
Six years after passing through the House and Senate without receiving a single Republican vote, the Affordable Care Act (popularly known as Obamacare) remains a hotly contested piece of legislation. But outside of the political arena, there’s much less debate.
via Think Progress.
More than one-third of Americans are unaware that ObamaCare and the Affordable Care Act are the same law.
The figure comes from a new poll by Morning Consult that found 35 percent of Americans do not know ObamaCare is another label — made popular by the GOP — used to describe the Affordable Care Act, enacted under former President Barack Obama in 2010.
About 17 percent of Americans polled thought they were two different laws, and 18 percent said the didn’t know whether they were the same policy or two different things.
via The Hill.
Donut Hole: The Medicare Part D Coverage Gap Illustrated:
This illustration explains how the Part D coverage gap (“donut hole”) affects the costs your clients will pay for their prescription drugs in 2016.
Click here or the graphic above to view the full document.
via NCOA.
