After bumping up in a July poll, public support for the healthcare reform law in a new poll is back to its May levels, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
The Kaiser Family Foundation's newest tracking poll found 43 percent of Americans viewed the law favorably, compared with 50 percent in July, while 45 percent held unfavorable views of the law.
While 68 percent of Democrats support the reforms, 77 percent of Republicans oppose them. And while three-quarters supported providing subsidies to low- and moderate-income Americans to buy coverage, 70 percent looked unfavorably on the individual mandate to buy health insurance or pay a fine.
The poll also found the law's likely impact on the November elections hasn't changed much, with registered voters still split into three like-sized groups: those likely to oppose a candidate who supported the law, those likely to support such a candidate and those who wouldn't care.
Read the Kaiser Health News report on healthcare reform.
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The Kaiser Family Foundation's newest tracking poll found 43 percent of Americans viewed the law favorably, compared with 50 percent in July, while 45 percent held unfavorable views of the law.
While 68 percent of Democrats support the reforms, 77 percent of Republicans oppose them. And while three-quarters supported providing subsidies to low- and moderate-income Americans to buy coverage, 70 percent looked unfavorably on the individual mandate to buy health insurance or pay a fine.
The poll also found the law's likely impact on the November elections hasn't changed much, with registered voters still split into three like-sized groups: those likely to oppose a candidate who supported the law, those likely to support such a candidate and those who wouldn't care.
Read the Kaiser Health News report on healthcare reform.
Read more on healthcare reform.
- Pro-Reform Lobbyists Redrafting Message as Polls Show Increasing Interest as Election Issue
- Large Employers Begin Revising Health Plans to Align With Reform, Many Raising Employee Contributions
- White House Lists 10 Ways Health Reform Will Reshape Practice of Medicine