Featuring the headline "Obamacare is even more popular than the last time Trump tried to kill it," Politico reviews the latest trends in public opinion regarding the landmark 2010 health-care law (brought to my attention via Political Wire).
The Politico article cites the May 2023 installment of the KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) health-care polling series, which found 59 percent of Americans support the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare. (Given the article's timing, I would have thought it would feature more recent polling on the ACA than May; instead the impetus for the article appears to be former president Donald Trump's recent statement about wanting to try again to repeal the law, should he return to office.)
According to a graph in the Politico article, support for the ACA ranged from 33-45% for most of the period between 2010-2016. Once Trump came into office in 2017 and on into 2018, ACA support approached and then exceeded 50%. Now it's approaching 60%.
