Although a year has passed since President Obama signed The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, many Oregonians still don’t understand how health care reform affects them.
Although a year has passed since President Obama signed The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, many Oregonians still don’t understand how health care reform affects them.
Given what knowledge Americans have about the law, 3 in 10 expect to be worse off because of it, one quarter feel they will be better off, and about two-fifth believe the law won’t make any difference, according to a nationally representative survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
But public opinion also reflects uneasiness with inevitable trade-offs and costs. Despite majority support for expanding coverage to the uninsured, for instance, less than half of Americans say they are willing to pay higher taxes or premiums to make it happen. Two-thirds of Americans say they want Congress to drop the provision requiring everyone who can afford health insurance to buy coverage.
Read more about how the law affects you at OregonLive.com.
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