Pew Research has put together this really nice piece summarizing all the recent polling on the Affordable Care Act compared to polling done right after it was passed in March of 2010. Basically a few polls show it getting slightly more popular since it was signed into the law and a few polls have it [...]

One of the most important questions the Justices will likely bring up tomorrow in the deliberation about the individual mandate will be: Is health care — or health insurance — actually unique? This raises the important issue sometimes called the “broccoli question.” The general idea behind it is that if the federal government has the [...]

As the Supreme Court begins hearing oral arguments today about the fate of the Affordable Care Act, it is important to keep in mind that the law remains very unpopular. A CBS New/New Times poll shows only about a third of Americans actually support the law, while nearly half the country disapproves of it. From [...]

Today is the two year anniversary of the adoption of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature legislative achievement. Despite the widely promoted insane belief the that law would magically get more popular after it was passed, two years later the law has only gotten less popular. Research indicates that the intense unpopularity of the [...]

I love a good provocative title as much as the next writer but it has to at least make some sense, which really doesn’t seem to be the case with Ezra Klein’s new article ‘Ryan May Lead to Single-Payer Health Care.’ As best as I can make sense of the rather strange logic leaps, Klein [...]

While much of the news next week will be dominated by how the Supreme Court could affect the future of health care in this country through its ruling on the Affordable Care Act, I thought now may be a good time to talk about how future health care developments could affect the Supreme Court. This [...]

The Democrats’ decision to include an individual mandate to buy private insurance in the Affordable Care Act continues to seriously hurt overall support for the law. The incredible damage to popular support caused by just this one provision is perfectly indicated by these two question in the recent Washington Post ABC News poll. 15. The [...]

The Congressional Budget Office has looked at the potential impact of companies choosing to drop their employee provide health insurance as a result of the Affordable Care Act. According to its analysis if a large number of companies stop providing health insurance benefits it should cause the ACA on net to decrease the deficit even [...]

The American people continue to strongly dislike the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, and the intensity of this opposition has only increased. According to Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll only 32 percent of the country has a favorable opinion of the mandate, while 64 view it unfavorably. Impressively a 54% majority of the [...]

Support for President Obama’s signature health care reform law hasn’t gotten better with age. Currently more voters support repealing the whole law than leaving it in place. According to new Gallup polling, 47 percent would favor a Republican president repealing the law while just 44 would oppose such a move. From Gallup: Also reflecting the [...]