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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.

New state rankings from West Health-Gallup reveal sizable differences in residents' experiences of healthcare cost, quality, and access and an urgent need for improvement in every U.S. state.

Americans as a whole favor addressing the root causes of crime over boosting law enforcement, and they oppose using military force in U.S. cities, but partisans' views strongly differ.

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.

Americans are more likely now than in early 2014 to say the Affordable Care Act has helped them (16% say this, up from 10%) or has hurt them (27%, up from 19%). A majority still say the law has had no effect.

Half of Americans want to see the Affordable Care Act repealed or scaled back, down from 57% in January 2011.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.

West Health and Gallup developed a system to rank all 50 states and D.C. based on residents' experiences with healthcare cost, quality and access.

Americans are split on whether they approve or disapprove of the Affordable Care Act, but overall, they are steadily seeing more benefits to the law since 2012.

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.