More Americans say ObamaCare hurt their families than ever before
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A varying majority of Americans have disapproved of the Affordable Care Act since 2013, and for many that position is more of a matter of policy than personal gain or loss. But new Gallup poll results released Thursday say the percentage of Americans who believe their families have been directly hurt by ObamaCare is at an all-time high of 29 percent:
The poll also found more Americans are more likely to believe ObamaCare's long-term effect on their health care will be negative than positive, but the largest group — 37 percent — say it won't change much in the long run.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
