article_snippet.sent: Whether the new findings turn out to be a high-water mark for President Barack Obama's health care law, or a milestone on the path toward President Barack Obama goal of getting virtually all U.S. residents covered, remains to be seen.
article_snippet.sent: The law's future is still up in the air, and will turn on factors ranging from an upcoming Supreme Court decision on consumer subsidies to actions by Republican leaders in states opposed to Medicaid expansion.
article_snippet.sent: The latest update from the Gallup-Healthways survey overlaps with the period when the health law's second sign-up season was winding down.
article_snippet.sent: A big outstanding question is what will happen over the next couple of years,' said Larry Levitt, a health insurance expert with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. '
article_snippet.sent: From government officials to local volunteers, many people involved with the health care law expected some kind of second-year slowdown.
article_snippet.sent: Five years after its passage, the biggest question now for President Barack Obama's health care law is a Supreme Court challenge.
article_snippet.sent: A decision in that case is expected by late June.