{"id":2725,"date":"2016-04-28T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T13:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2016-04-28T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T13:37:17","slug":"democrats-increasingly-want-expansion-of-health-law-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2725","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Increasingly Want Expansion Of Health Law, Poll Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>When Democrats fault the Affordable Care Act, it\u2019s increasingly because it does not go far enough, <a href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/health-reform\/report\/kaiser-health-tracking-poll-april-2016\" target=\"_blank\">a poll released Thursday shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The results come as Democratic presidential candidate\u00a0Bernie Sanders has repeatedly derided the law for including too many concessions to the private health care industry and costing consumers too much.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 51 percent of Democrats want to expand the law, a 15 point increase since December. (KHN is an editorially independent program of the foundation.) <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/democrats-increasingly-want-expansion-of-health-law-poll-finds\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=29019630&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9Arwa3igeFc8GDlqTLlAAMmctzPtcxoSR2yqwLoZ_3QFmDEyGL_CCluHTi60WD9dHpIzHL9WDiHtoUJIgby8egR7dhow&amp;_hsmi=29019630\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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