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Gallup editors' picks for the most significant trends and discoveries in American public opinion in 2017.

The two major decisions recently handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court have very direct relationships to public opinion. One of the decisions fits well with majority public opinion. The other, in a broad sense, does not.

Americans see the 2010 Affordable Care Act as President Barack Obama's greatest achievement to date as well as his biggest failure, underscoring the controversial nature of the law that is likely to define his legacy.

Americans are more positive about their own personal healthcare situations than about the healthcare situation nationally. They don't see the healthcare system as being in crisis, but most say it has major problems.

Voters have both more positive and more negative reactions to Obama's association with the national healthcare law than to Mitt Romney's association with the Massachusetts healthcare law passed when he was governor.

Nine years after its passage, half of Americans approve of the Affordable Care Act, unchanged from April 2019 but down from its record high in April 2017.

Americans' approval of the Affordable Care Act rose to 45% in October from 41% in August. Approval has grown mainly among Democrats. Still, Americans are more likely to disapprove than approve of the law.

Half of Americans want to see the Affordable Care Act repealed or scaled back, down from 57% in January 2011. Thirty-eight percent want the law kept as is or expanded, essentially unchanged.

Less than two months before the health insurance exchanges open, more Americans disapprove than approve of the healthcare law and many remain unfamiliar with it. The young, who are key to the law's success, know the least about it.

In the U.S., a majority of Americans want Congress to either repeal or scale back the 2010 healthcare law. Republicans and Democrats are more divided about what Congress should do than they were in October.