The Hill News

Happy birthday to healthcare reform. Unfortunately, after that long battle, and all the money spent not only to implement the law but to educate Americans who know little about it, the law remains even more unpopular than when it passed a year ago and the cost of healthcare insurance remains prohibitive and continues to rise.
 
Democrats, who lost their majority in the House in the midterm elections last fall, in part due to healthcare reform, won't campaign on it next year, just as they didn't last year. But on its anniversary they are going all out to try and budge public opinion on reform, which has proven quite stubborn. The most recent polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 42 percent of respondents approved of the law while 46 percent opposed it, a bit worse than the average polls on the law since it passed. The survey also finds a majority of respondents are confused about what the law does and whether or not it has been repealed.

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