--- title: Americans Favor Obama Health Care Law, CNN/ORC Poll Finds description: More Americans hold positive views about Obamacare than hold negative views for the first time since theAffordable Care Act passed in 2010. canonical: https://time.com/4639119/obamacare-popularity-rises-poll/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-19T13:30:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:48:09.015Z article:section: Health og:title: Obamacare Is More Popular Than Ever, Poll Finds og:description: A new CNN/ORC poll found more people favored than opposed the health care law og:url: https://time.com/4639119/obamacare-popularity-rises-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0e881e2f1ccd1b0/6988b628428a9e0b04cd5880/obamacare-affordable-care-act.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Hundreds of activists and allies from the newly-formed anti- og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obamacare Is More Popular Than Ever, Poll Finds twitter:description: A new CNN/ORC poll found more people favored than opposed the health care law twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0e881e2f1ccd1b0/6988b628428a9e0b04cd5880/obamacare-affordable-care-act.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Obamacare Is More Popular Than Ever, Poll Finds > Sponsored content. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators.  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Jan 19, 2017 1:30 PM UTC  Hundreds of activists and allies from the newly-formed anti-Trump group Rise & Resist staged a peaceful protest at Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York City, to fight against the radical changes to the American healthcare system proposed by the Trump Administration and Republicans, on Jan. 15, 2017. Hundreds of activists and allies from the newly-formed anti-Trump group Rise & Resist staged a peaceful protest at Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York City, to fight against the radical changes to the American healthcare system proposed by the Trump Administration and Republicans, on Jan. 15, 2017. Erik McGregor—Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Jan 19, 2017 1:30 PM UTC More Americans hold positive [views about Obamacare](http://time.com/4616406/obamacare-enrollement-record-donald-trump/) than hold negative views for the first time since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, according to [a new poll from CNN/ORC](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2017/images/01/18/congress,.aca.pdf). The results found that 49% of people polled favored the law—slightly more than the 47% who opposed it. The responses show people may not have known what they got until it was (almost) gone, because every previous poll has seen more people oppose the law, [CNN reports](http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/19/politics/obamacare-approval-cnn-orc-poll/index.html). It was the first time in at least 18 polls since March 2010 that people favored the healthcare law, according to CNN. Obamacare’s newfound popularity is coupled with how 82% of respondents believe it is at least somewhat likely that President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will [repeal and replace](http://time.com/money/4632898/obamacare-affordable-care-act-repeal-what-happens-preexisting-conditions/) the healthcare law, the poll found. Although the portion of uninsured Americans has reached an all-time low under Obamacare, more people polled felt it has been a failure (37%) than a success (23%). The largest portion of respondents, 38%, said it was still too soon to tell. CNN/ORC International conducted the poll of 1,000 people over the phone between Jan. 12 and Jan. 17, and it has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. \[[_CNN_](http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/19/politics/obamacare-approval-cnn-orc-poll/index.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4639119/obamacare-popularity-rises-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4639119/obamacare-popularity-rises-poll/"},"headline":"Obamacare Is More Popular Than Ever, Poll Finds","datePublished":"2017-01-19T13:30:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:48:09.015Z","description":"A new CNN/ORC poll found more people favored than opposed the health care law","url":"https://time.com/4639119/obamacare-popularity-rises-poll/","keywords":["Health Care","Obamacare","Barack Obama","health","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0e881e2f1ccd1b0/6988b628428a9e0b04cd5880/obamacare-affordable-care-act.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0e881e2f1ccd1b0/6988b628428a9e0b04cd5880/obamacare-affordable-care-act.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hundreds of activists and allies from the newly-formed anti-","caption":"Hundreds of activists and allies from the newly-formed anti-Trump group Rise & Resist staged a peaceful protest at Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York City, to fight against the radical changes to the American healthcare system proposed by th","creditText":"Erik McGregor—Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images","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/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/health-care/","name":"Health Care"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4639119/obamacare-popularity-rises-poll/","name":"Obamacare Is More Popular Than Ever, Poll Finds"}}]}] ```