Protesters gather across the Chicago River from Trump Tower to rally against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act on March 24. | AP Photo Poll: 55 percent of Americans approve of Obamacare

A majority of Americans approve of the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama’s health care law, for the first time since the polling firm Gallup began asking the question in November 2012.

Fifty-five percent of people surveyed by Gallup said they support the law, while 41 percent disapprove of it, according to poll results released Tuesday. That’s an uptick from the 42 percent of Americans who supported it last November, after President Donald Trump was elected.


And asked about the law’s future, a plurality, 40 percent, told Gallup they would like to keep the law but make “significant changes” to it; 30 percent would like it to be repealed, and 26 percent want to keep it as is.

The survey was conducted on April 1 and 2, after House Republicans tried and failed to repeal Obamacare and replace it with an alternative. The proposal, which Trump has publicly supported, was pulled from the House floor after GOP leaders realized they did not have the support to pass it.

The Gallup poll had a sample size of 1,023 and a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.