Even many of the people who say they approve of the AffordableCare Act think it's ugly.
|Related: Paul Ryan's ACA replacement plan
|Analysts at Washington-based Gallup Inc. have published datasupporting that conclusion in an analysis of results from a recent surveyof 1,019 U.S. adults ages 18 and older. Gallup conducted the surveyfrom Nov. 9 through Nov. 13, right after the Nov. 8 generalelection.
|About 42 percent of the survey participants said they approvedof the ACA, and 53 percent said they disapproved of the healthlaw.
|But Gallup analysts found that many of the ACA supportersactually dislike the current version of the law, and that many ofthe ACA critics want the country to keep some version of the law inplace.
|Related: Obamacare champions make last-ditch effort appealto the under-35 crowd
|Only one-third of the ACA supporters told Gallup they want tokeep the current version of the ACA as is. Two-thirds of the ACAsupporters said they want the ACA changed significantly.
|Meanwhile, on the other side, 28 percent of the ACA critics saidthey would like to see the law changed significantly, rather thanrepealed.
|Only 14 percent of all of the survey participants said they likethe ACA as is.
|Twenty-nine percent said they want to see the law kept butchanged significantly.
|Thirty-seven percent said they want to see the law repealed andreplaced.
|Related: Voters say Trump's priority must be health carereform
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.
