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As the nation awaits the Supreme Court ruling on the 2010 healthcare law, Gallup assesses Americans' views of it, revealing that they have at best mixed support for the law and widely view the individual mandate as unconstitutional.

In a shift from recent years, 51% of Americans now say the federal government should ensure all Americans have health insurance. This is up six percentage points from 2014, and the first time a majority has held this view since 2008.

Shortly after the Supreme Court turned back another legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act in late June, Americans' views of the law improved. Yet as many still disapprove of the law as approve of it.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.