article_snippet.sent: The Affordable Care Act had three major objectives: increase coverage, slow the rate of increase in costs, and improve health,' said Dan Witters, research director for the poll. '
article_snippet.sent: To meet expectations, enrollment has to continue to grow and push the number of uninsured down.'
article_snippet.sent: One of the questions they ask is whether people have health insurance.
article_snippet.sent: The health care law offers subsidized private insurance for people who don't have access to job-based coverage, combined with an expansion of Medicaid aimed at low-income adults in states that accept it.
article_snippet.sent: Big states like Florida and Texas are among those refusing to expand Medicaid.
article_snippet.sent: The health care law requires nearly all Americans to have coverage, either through an employer, a government program, or by purchasing their own plan.
article_snippet.sent: Those remaining uninsured risk fines.
article_snippet.sent: Those remaining uninsured risk fines also provides subsidies to help low-to moderate-income people buy low-to moderate-income people own insurance.
article_snippet.sent: President Barack Obama's health care law requires nearly all Americans to have coverage, either through an employer, a government program, or by purchasing their own plan - those remaining uninsured risk fines .
article_snippet.sent: Opponents of Obama's health care law argue that Obama's health care law literal language only allows the government to subsidize premiums in states that set up their own online insurance markets.
article_snippet.sent: Most have not done so, defaulting to the federal HealthCare.gov.
article_snippet.sent: Supporters say that while some provisions may be confusing when read in isolation, the intent of Congress was to help consumers in every state pay consumers premiums.