Kaiser finds public is badly informed on health care law
Four in ten Americans dont realize that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, according to a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Of those, 7 percent believe the Supreme Court overturned it, 12 percent think Congress repealed it and 23 percent just dont know.
About half the people surveyed say they dont have enough information to understand how the law will affect their family. That share is higher among the uninsured and low-income, the very groups who the law was designed to benefit.
Those surveyed say their most common sources of information on the law are friends and family, online news sources and cable news.
In Kaisers March poll, respondents also reported that they dont know anything about whether their state plans to set up a health care exchange. And more than three-fourths said they dont know whether their state plans to expand Medicaid.
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