A year after the President signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law, it is very clear that Americans are still unsure of the law and they just do not understand it. It is visible by reading the news articles, watching the news on television and by just talking to people around you – that there is still confusion – despite the attempts to educate Americans via such sites as www.healthcare.gov.

The latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll shows that “more than half (53%) of Americans continue to report that they are confused about the law”. This same report done last April just shortly after the bill was signed, showed that 55% were confused about the law – so the numbers really haven’t improved much. Also the recent poll said that 52% of the public feel that “they do not have enough information about the health reform law to understand how it will impact them personally”.

According to the Kaiser poll, people are still split on their feelings about the law – 42% favor it and 46% view it unfavorably. The poll shows the strong divide between partisan lines – showing that 71% of Democrats support the law, 82% of Republicans oppose the law and independents have a split vote – 37% favor and 49% do not favor the law.

Click here to read the full Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll.

The poll was performed between March 8th to the 13th and it covered a nationally representative random sample of 1,202 adults ages 18 years and older. The margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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