HealthCare Notes

1/30/14

SURVEY: Americans Still Don’t Know About Obamacare’s Biggest Consumer Protections

www.thinkprogress.org/health/2014/01/30/3229051/americans-know-obamacare/
"The poll finds that the vast majority of Americans (about 62 percent) think that only “some” parts of the Affordable Care Act have gone into effect, even though most of its major provisions became a reality on January 1. Nearly ten percent don’t think any of it has gone into effect at all. And large shares of Americans — particularly the uninsured — don’t even know that the law contains popular provisions such as prohibiting insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and an optional expansion of Medicaid"