Most California voters gave the state’s rollout of the federal health law high marks and overall support of the Affordable Care Act is on the rise, according to a Field Poll released Tuesday. … After this first full year in operation, 56 percent of California voters said they support the […] Read more »
Public support for medical marijuana is reaching new highs. Why do Republican 2016 hopefuls find the idea a buzzkill?
The legalization of medical marijuana has broad support from the American public. But Republican presidential contenders aren’t so high on the idea. … You’d expect presidential candidates to be on board with an idea that’s literally more popular than apple pie. So why isn’t the crop of potential GOP White […] Read more »
Slim Majority Call Secondhand Smoke Very Harmful
Less than half of U.S. smokers with children younger than 18, 44%, believe exposure to secondhand smoke is “very harmful” to adults. That contrasts with two-thirds of parents who don’t smoke, and 61% of adult nonsmokers without children younger than 18. Meanwhile, relatively few smokers who don’t have minor-aged children, […] Read more »
Obamacare Is Saving Thousands of Lives. And Americans Will Always Hate It.
… Across the country, the law is improving access to doctors, prompting low- and middle-income Americans to use more medical care, protecting families from financial distress and ultimately saving lives — as many as 24,000 a year, back-of-the-envelope math suggests. … But there is scant evidence that Americans have started […] Read more »
How Obamacare Is Doing Better But Feeling Worse
… The sharp partisan divisions over the ACA explain the politics we see playing out as the midterms approach. Each side knows it can’t convince the other to change its views of the health-care law. So each plays to its base; especially Republicans, whose core voters feel most strongly about […] Read more »
Arkansas, Kentucky Report Sharpest Drops in Uninsured Rate
Arkansas and Kentucky lead all other states in the sharpest reductions in their uninsured rate among adult residents since the healthcare law’s requirement to have insurance took effect at the beginning of the year. Delaware, Washington, and Colorado round out the top five. All 10 states that report the largest […] Read more »