Poll: Americans Swing to Negative on Health Reform

Not surprisingly since President Barack Obama hasn’t been selling it recently and Republicans have been trashing it, Americans’ support for the new health care law has dipped in a recent poll.

Since most of the rules for implementing the law are still being written, it’s more than 1,000 pages long, and most provisions don’t go into effect for years, it’s a little hard to judge it. But that hasn’t stopped Republicans from loudly making its repeal a theme of their midterm election campaign.

Meanwhile, Obama has been on vacation, so he hasn’t been talking health care reform up very much lately.

So, the law’s popularity fell to 43 percent this month, with 45 percent opposing it in a Kaiser Family Foundation poll. In July, 50 percent said they liked the law.

Provisions of the law including allowing uninsured children to remain on their parents’ plan until age 26, aimed specifically at boosting popularity of the bill, go into effect September 23. So look for a sales job on the bill from Democrats then, and a possible rise at the polls.