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By a two-to-one margin, more Americans believe the Affordable Care Act will make the quality of their health care worse than better, according to a new poll.

A Quinnipiac survey released Tuesday shows that only 19 percent of Americans believe the quality of their healthcare will improve because of the ACA, while 43 percent think their care will worsen. Thirty-three percent believe the ACA will not affect their health care at all.


The same poll found that voters disapprove of President Barack Obama’s job performance, 54 percent to 39 percent, the lowest since Obama became president in 2009.

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“President Obama’s job approval rating has fallen to the level of former President George W. Bush at the same period of his presidency,” Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in the report.

Backlash over the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act appears to be the primary culprit driving down the president’s approval ratings; 46 percent of voters believe the president “knowingly deceived” voters when the assured the public they would be able to keep their health insurance plans once the ACA was implemented. Forty-seven percent said they do not believe Obama knowingly deceived voters.

But for the first time since the president took office, the majority of Americans find him dishonest and untrustworthy, 52 percent to 44 percent. That’s a striking reversal from a poll released on Oct. 1 — conducted before HealthCare.gov launched — when 54 percent found him trustworthy compared to 41 who did not.

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Obama’s approval rating dropped among key Democratic constituencies in the last month: 6 percentage point hit among independents, from 36 percent to 30 percent; 6 percentage points among women, from 46 percent to 40 percent; 8 percentage points among Hispanics, from 49 percent to 41 percent; and 15 percentage points among blacks, from 90 percent to 75 percent.

The survey of 2,545 registered voters was conducted from Nov. 6 to Nov. 11 and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 1.9 percentage points.

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