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Americans name healthcare as the top financial problem facing their family, while concerns about low wages have fallen to pre-recession levels.

Twenty-three percent of Americans feel the Affordable Care Act has hurt them or their families -- the highest figure Gallup has recorded for the question. Meanwhile, 10% say it has helped them, and 63% say it has had no effect.

The large majority of uninsured Americans plan to get health insurance rather than pay the fine. But awareness of the new insurance exchanges is low among the uninsured, with less than half planning to get coverage through them.

Speaking at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, earlier this week, President Barack Obama extolled the positive impact of the Affordable Care Act, his signature legislation, saying, "While good, affordable healthcare might seem like a ...

With Monday's deadline for enrolling in an insurance plan past, political party ID remains the most influential predictor of whether an individual disapproves of the healthcare law.

For the first time in nearly a decade, more Americans say the Supreme Court is too conservative than too liberal.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's favorability rating among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents is down nine points from April's 49%.

About one in six Republicans (16%) approve of the job Congress is doing, down from 28% in July and 50% in February.

Americans say that, in the long run, the Affordable Care Act will make the healthcare situation in the U.S. worse (48%) rather than better (35%). These attitudes have changed little since late November.

Americans' support for a government-run healthcare system has ticked up, with the public now divided on whether it or a system based on private insurance would be better for the U.S.