Poll: Newly insured Americans want Obamacare kept in place

10% of those in the six polls included in this analysis say they have health insurance today, but did not have it in 2013, the year before the program’s mandate for coverage went into effect. Slightly more are still uninsured (and 3% say that they were covered in 2013, but are not covered today). Of course, all of these changes are not necessarily the result of Obamacare, but there are differences in how each of these groups evaluate the program.

By more than two to one, those who have become insured want the program kept as it is or expanded, as opposed to repealing it. Those who were always insured are closely divided. Those who say they no longer have insurance narrowly favor appeal. But those who did not have health insurance in either period are the most negative. Half of them would repeal the program.

There are demographic differences between those who are now insured and those who are not. The newly-insured are more likely to be young, to have lower incomes than is the public overall, and to be black or Hispanic. But those characteristics also describe those who were not insured in 2013 and are not insured now, the group most negative about the plan.