HealthCare.gov’s botched launch didn’t change public opinion: poll

Despite a very rocky first month for the health insurance exchanges, public opinion on the health-care law did what it has done for the past three years: stayed exactly the same.

That's pretty much what public opinion looked like last month...and the month before that. There have been some ups and downs, but, taken altogether, the country has pretty much established itself as divided on the health-care law.

One reason we don't see any big swings in public opinion might have to do with the other headlines in the news over the last month. In late October, with the government shutdown coming to an end and Syria in the midst of dismantling its chemical weapons stockpile, the Kaiser poll finds that other news topics were on the front burner.