More Americans still say the Affordable Care Act has hurt instead of helped them.
Though Americans overall that say the law has helped them has increased — from 10 percent to 16 percent — since the beginning of the year, those saying it has hurt them has also gone up by a similar percentage: from 19 to 27 percent, according to a new Gallup poll.
Compared with early 2014, 54 percent of Americans say it has had no effect.
Attitudes toward Obamacare have stayed constant over the year, the poll found.
Currently, 41 percent of Americans approve the law, while 53 percent disapprove — attitudes toward it also remain sharply divided along party lines, with a little change.
The 15 percent of Democrats who say the law has hurt them is from 6 percent in May. Republicans’ views have essentially stayed the same.
Americans also now see the long-term effect of Obamacare as negative rather than positive: 46 percent say the law will make things worse in the long run, 36 percent say better and 15 percent say no difference.
The poll of 1,014 American adults was conducted Oct. 1-2 with a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.
