Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Many Americans who will benefit from the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) tell pollsters they oppose it. Obamacare has been so demonized by Republicans that voters blindly accept that it is a bad law.

However, when broken down to its individual parts, the polls are very different. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation report, the percent of a favorable view of elements of the Act is impressive:

—Tax credits to small businesses to buy insurance (88 percent in favor);

—Close the Medicare "donut hole" (81 percent in favor);

—Create health insurance exchanges (80 percent in favor);

—Extension of dependent coverage until age 26 (76 percent in favor);

—Subsidy assistance to individuals (76 percent in favor);

—Medicaid expansion (71 percent in favor);

—Employer mandate/penalty for large employers (71 percent in favor); and,

—Individual mandate/penalty (74 percent in favor).

The Act also prevents ...