Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, December 2011: “The October downturn in the share of Americans with a favorable view of the health reform law, a dip driven by an erosion of support among Democrats, has been fully reversed in December, with support among Democrats rebounding and overall national opinion on the law returning to the roughly even split seen in Kaiser polls for most of 2011. Forty-three percent of Americans expressed unfavorable views of the law in December (compared to 51% and 44% in October and November, respectively), while 41 percent had favorable views (compared to 34% in October and 37% in November). Partisan divisions persist with 64 percent of Democrats backing the law and just as many Republicans (69%) opposing it. The December poll is the latest in a series designed and analyzed by the Foundation’s public opinion research team.

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