Public support for the landmark healthcare law Obamacare remains divided despite the third Supreme Court decision to keep the legislation intact following years of conservative attempts to undo the law, recent polling shows.
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A survey of more than 2,000 U.S. voters over the past week found that 54% of adults either strongly or somewhat approve of the healthcare law, also referred to as the Affordable Care Act, while 37% of voters oppose it, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll.
The public opinion results come less than a week after the 7-2 Supreme Court decision that found the attorneys general of Republican states could not show “a past or future injury” connected to the parts of Obamacare that they wanted to be deemed unconstitutional. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the majority opinion for the decision.
“After more than a decade of attacks on the Affordable Care Act through the Congress and the courts, today’s decision – the third major challenge to the law that the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected – it is time move forward and keep building on this landmark law,” President Joe Biden said after the court issued its decision.
The polling results also illustrate the wide gap in favorability of the law between Democrats and Republicans.
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Seventy-four percent of Republicans disapprove of the healthcare law, which has helped roughly 31 million people obtain health coverage, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Meanwhile, only 20% of Republicans approve of the law, while 6% have no opinion on the matter.
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare as “the law of the land,” Biden said, has curbed Republican efforts to chip away at it, at least temporarily. Partisan support for the law was reflected in additional Morning Consult polling results this week, which reported that roughly 79% of Democratic voters would like to see the law either expanded or left as is, while 70% of Republicans said the law should be at least partially repealed.
