Table 21.

Support or Opposition to Changes to the Healthcare System

AP/GfK: “In general, do you support, oppose, or neither support nor oppose the healthcare reforms that were passed by Congress in March of 2010? [IF ‘SUPPORT’] Would you say you support the healthcare reforms that were passed by Congress in March of 2010 strongly or do you support them just somewhat? [IF ‘OPPOSE’] Would you say you oppose the healthcare reforms that were passed by Congress in March of 2010 strongly or do you oppose them just somewhat?”

	9/08/10–9/13/10	10/13/10– 10/18/10	11/03/10–11/08/10	1/05/11–1/10/11	3/24/11–3/28/11
	%	%	%	%	%
Strongly support	20	17	17	21	17
Somewhat support	21	24	20	19	18
Somewhat oppose	11	12	13	11	14
Neither support nor oppose	12	11	12	16	17
Strongly oppose	35	33	33	30	31
Don’t know [Vol.]	1	3	4	3	2
Refused/Not answered	–	*	–	*	–
N	1,000	1,501	1,000	1,001	1,001
	6/15/11–6/20/11	2/16/12–2/20/12	6/14/12–6/18/12	10/03/13–10/07/13a	12/05/13–12/09/13
	%	%	%	%	%
Strongly support	16	17	17	16	16
Somewhat support	21	18	17	12	11
Neither support nor oppose	15	14	13	32	28
Somewhat oppose	13	11	14	9	10
Strongly oppose	32	36	32	29	34
	6/15/11–6/20/11	2/16/12–2/20/12	6/14/12–6/18/12	10/03/13–10/07/13a	12/05/13–12/09/13
	%	%	%	%	%
Don’t know [Vol.]	3	4	7	N/A	N/A
Refused/Not answered	–	*	*	2	1
N	1,001	1,000	1,007	1,227	1,367
	1/17/14–1/21/14	3/20/14–3/24/14	5/16/14–5/19/14	9/25/14–9/29/14
	%	%	%	%
Strongly support	17	13	17	14
Somewhat support	10	13	11	11
Neither support nor oppose	30	30	28	34
Somewhat oppose	9	12	11	13
Strongly oppose	33	31	32	28
Don’t know [Vol.]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Refused/Not answered	1	1	1	1
N	1,060	1,012	1,354	1,845

*Less than .5%.