While the Affordable Care Act (ACA, a.k.a. Obamacare) has been getting more attention in the press lately — with quite a bit of coverage devoted to various ‘train wreck’ predictions — our tracking of voter attitudes towards the ACA suggests that the public has not focused on it since it was adopted in 2010.
With only five months left until a major element of the Affordable Care Act opens for business, four in ten Americans are unaware that healthcare reform is still law, according to a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The United States has one of the most expensive health care system in the world, but remains outperformed by most of other developed countries in terms of health benefits.
On Friday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker joined fourteen other Republican governors in refusing to set up a state-run health care exchange.
The Health Insurance Exchange deadline has been delayed again. States will have one more month to decide if they want to organize their own programs.
Are we better off now than we were four years ago? This has become an important theme in this years presidential race, but what do the facts say?
The allegation is that the Democrats are raiding Medicare and the elderly to pay for their own pet program. The truth is that the difference between Republicans and Democrats on Medicare is none.
