--- title: Obamacare Health Insurance Approval Hits New Low, Survey Says description: Americans' support for Obamacare dropped to 37% even as 100,000 people spent the weekend signing up for insurance canonical: https://time.com/3588997/obamacare-poll-new-low/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-17T14:17:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:28:31.809Z article:section: Politics og:title: Obamacare Support Drops to 37%, Survey Says og:description: Even as 100,000 people spent the weekend signing up for insurance og:url: https://time.com/3588997/obamacare-poll-new-low/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e4cda5e5f52afda/698768fd428a9e6ed2cc5659/barack-obama3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: U.S. President Barack Obama listens to a question at a news conference at the end of the G20 summit in Brisbane og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obamacare Support Drops to 37%, Survey Says twitter:description: Even as 100,000 people spent the weekend signing up for insurance twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e4cda5e5f52afda/698768fd428a9e6ed2cc5659/barack-obama3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Obamacare Support Drops to 37%, Survey Says > Sponsored content. 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U.S. President Barack Obama listens to a question at a news conference at the end of the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia on Nov. 16, 2014. Jason Reed—Reuters by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Nov 17, 2014 2:17 PM UTC Americans’ approval of the Affordable Care Act has fallen to a [new low](http://www.gallup.com/poll/179426/new-enrollment-period-starts-aca-approval.aspx), according to a new poll, even as [100,000 people](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-transcript-november-16-2014-n249601) spent the weekend signing up for health insurance under the program. A Gallup survey conducted Nov. 6-9, in the days after Republicans won control of Congress in the midterm elections, finds only 37% of Americans approve of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, for which the second open-enrollment period began on Nov. 15\. Lower approval was noted among independents and non-whites, at 33% and 56%, respectively. Support for the law has been consistently low since November 2013, around the time the first open-enrollment period began. In January, support reached its previous low of 38%. Gallup notes that “approval of the law has remained low throughout the year even as it has had obvious success in reducing the uninsured rate.” Many Republicans have called for an all-out repeal of the law, which is unlikely, though Obama could still agree to modify parts of it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3588997/obamacare-poll-new-low/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3588997/obamacare-poll-new-low/"},"headline":"Obamacare Support Drops to 37%, Survey Says","datePublished":"2014-11-17T14:17:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:28:31.809Z","description":"Even as 100,000 people spent the weekend signing up for insurance","url":"https://time.com/3588997/obamacare-poll-new-low/","keywords":["Health Care","Obamacare","Affordable Care Act","Insurance"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e4cda5e5f52afda/698768fd428a9e6ed2cc5659/barack-obama3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e4cda5e5f52afda/698768fd428a9e6ed2cc5659/barack-obama3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"U.S. President Barack Obama listens to a question at a news conference at the end of the G20 summit in Brisbane","caption":"U.S. President Barack Obama listens to a question at a news conference at the end of the G20 summit in Brisbane","creditText":"Jason Reed—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/health-care/","name":"Health Care"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3588997/obamacare-poll-new-low/","name":"Obamacare Support Drops to 37%, Survey Says"}}]}] ```