{"id":1797,"date":"2016-01-28T08:48:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T13:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2016-01-28T08:48:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T13:48:55","slug":"the-affordable-care-act-doesnt-rank-highly-as-an-issue-for-voters-in-the-presidential-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"The Affordable Care Act Doesn&#8217;t Rank Highly As an Issue for Voters in the Presidential Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; Kaiser Family Foundation)<\/p>\n<h3 align=\"left\">Despite Anecdotal Reports about Narrow Networks, 87% of Working-Age Adults with Insurance Are Satisfied With Their Plan&#8217;s Choice of Doctors; 12% Say They Had to Change Doctors in Past Year<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"left\">As the ACA&#8217;s Open Enrollment Nears End, Most of Those Who Remain Uninsured Are Disengaged<\/h3>\n<p>While this month Congress passed and President Obama vetoed legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, voters nationally aren&#8217;t focused on the law in this year&#8217;s presidential election, the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/health-reform\/poll-finding\/kaiser-health-tracking-poll-january-2016\" data-hs-link-id=\"0\">Kaiser Health Tracking Poll<\/a> finds.<\/p>\n<p>Terrorism (38%) and the economy and jobs (34%) are the issues that voters are most likely to say will be extremely important to their presidential vote. In contrast, nearly\u00a0a quarter (23%) say the ACA will be extremely important to their vote, ranking eighth. Among the issues ranking somewhat higher is the personal cost of health care and health insurance, which 28 percent of voters describe as extremely important to their vote. <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.kff.org\/tracking-poll-aca-doesnt-rank-highly-as-an-issue-for-voters?ecid=ACsprvvgINB0jUAG7C9jl910LjfeES5YJYq8pKiUGB5nujXsmwuKJTw59E2grp4fSxlFiyXgZjC0&amp;utm_campaign=KFF-2016-January-ACA-Tracking-Poll&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=25673973&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8hgU5flCkE-4Oci0zsM9_eelYlGNoP4SpYVPbgk5vblOHFP5HP-WvIAPqdMmjkSSfugHTemocb8drtw3_s_9dR8qnh2A&amp;_hsmi=25673973\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; Kaiser Family Foundation) Despite Anecdotal Reports about Narrow Networks, 87% of Working-Age Adults with Insurance Are Satisfied With<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}