Poll: Nearly 25% of Insured Americans Think PPACA Will Force Them to Change Health Plan

A recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll (pdf) reveals that nearly a quarter of insured American adults under the age of 65 believe the individual mandate provision within the PPACA will force them to change their current health insurance plan by 2014.

Of the 23 percent of adults who hold that opinion, an overwhelming majority polled said they feel it would leave them worse off than before the full range of provisions kicked in. In its commentary, the Kaiser Foundation says that "many policy experts suggest that most of those currently covered by employer-sponsored insurance should not experience major changes in their coverage due to the implementation of the individual mandate."

In addition, a majority — 51 percent of people polled — feel the PPACA is unconstitutional. That's the same percentage as before the Supreme Court had its hearings on PPACA.

The publicity the national healthcare law received during the Supreme Court hearings did little to change the public's overall perception of the act. Around 40 percent of those polled have a generally favorable opinion of it, and about the same percentage hold an unfavorable view of PPACA, according to the Kaiser poll. The numbers changed little since Kaiser's March poll, which asked the same questions.

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