Hill February 21, 2020
The Affordable Care Act’s favorability hit a record high in a new poll released Friday, highlighting the shifting political tones around the law.
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds that 55 percent of the public views the health law favorably, the highest level since KFF began polling the question about 10 years ago. Just 37 percent said they view it unfavorably.
ObamaCare was long viewed more unfavorably than favorably, especially during the troubled rollout of the healthcare.gov website in late 2013.
But that changed with President Trump’s election in 2016, when favorability began rising amid the Republican push to repeal the law in 2017.
The health care law has now become a political asset for Democrats, who...