More say the health care law has had a positive than negative effect on nation % who say the 2010 health care law has had effectso far
While the future of the Affordable Care Act is in question, the public increasingly thinks the law has had a positive impact on the country. Today, more Americans say the 2010 health care overhaul has had a mostly positive than mostly negative effect on the country (44% versus 35%), while 14% say it has not had much effect.
As recently as April 2016, more Americans thought the law had had a negative impact on the country (44%) than said it had a positive effect (39%). Since 2013, the share of Americans saying the law has had a positive effect on the country has increased 20 percentage points, from 24% to 44%.
In addition, the share saying the law has had a positive personal effect has ticked up over the past year. Today, about as many say its effect on them and their families has been mostly positive (28%) as say mostly negative (24%); nearly half (48%) say it has not had much personal effect. In April 2016, somewhat more said the law had impacted them negatively (31%) than positively (23%); 45% said it had not much of an effect.
More say the health care law has had a  | positive than negative effect on nation  | % who say the 2010 health care law has had  | effectso far  | a  | On the country asa whole  | Mostly negative  | 35  | 31  | Mostly positive  | 14  | Not much effect  | 2017  | 2013  | 2014  | 2015 2016  | On you and lyour family  | Not much effect  | 48  | Mostly negative  | 28  | 24  | Mostly positive  | 2013  | 2016  | 2014  | 2015  | 2017  | Note: Don 't know responses notshown.  | Source: Survey ofus adults conducted Nov. 29- -Dec 4 2017.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 