claim: "at the time that (medicare part d) was passed (it) was actually less popular than the affordable care act, according to the polls."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: mar 22, 2013 ... and some of its most popular elements -- closing the medicare part d "donut hole ," creating insurance exchanges, extending tax credits to small businesses ... in  fact, the situation is even a bit worse than that. many of obamacare's more  popular elements are actually becoming less well known with time:.
evidence_2: the tracking poll has been a primary tool for monitoring all aspects of public  opinion on the affordable care act, including the public's experiences under the  law and their views on its provisions and on efforts to repeal and replace it. the  tracking poll also captures the public's views and experiences with medicare, ...
evidence_3: mar 23, 2015 ... when democrats passed the affordable care act in 2010, they knew it wasn't  popular — poll after poll showed pluralities, if not majorities, opposed to the  legislation after the bruising national fight that led to its passage. but democrats  had a theory about the law: as time went on, and americans started to ...
evidence_4: apr 25, 2013 ... on march 23, 2010, president obama signed comprehensive health reform, the  patient protection and affordable care act, into law. ... exemptions will be  granted for financial hardship, religious objections, american indians, those  without coverage for less than three months, undocumented immigrants, ...
evidence_5: feb 7, 2017 ... this confusion was more pronounced among people 18 to 29 and those who  earn less than $50,000 — two groups that could be significantly affected by  repeal. among republicans, a higher percentage (72 percent) said they knew  obamacare and the a.c.a. were the same, which may reflect the party's ...