Study: Wealthy, White, Health Americans More Likely to Oppose Obamacare

From Ring of Fire:

A new analysis by the Urban Institute reveals that wealthy Americans who are white and have private insurance are most likely to oppose the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The survey also found that people who have benefited from at least one provision of the law are still more likely to have a negative view of the law.

Forty-one percent of 8,000 respondents had an unfavorable view of the ACA, 29 percent had a favorable view, and 30 percent expressed no opinion. Respondents in the higher income group had a more unfavorable view of the ACA than respondents in the lower income group. According to the analysis:

Americans most likely to have an unfavorable view of the ACA are in the middle- and higher-income groups, have private insurance, are in very good/excellent health, are white, and live in rural areas.

On the other hand, “Those most likely to have no opinion are the groups most likely to benefit from the law—those in fair/poor health, those with lower incomes, the uninsured, nonwhites and Hispanics, high school graduates (or less), and the young,” meaning that those who could benefit most from the ACA are either uneducated about it or don’t care that it could help them.

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