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Americans' ratings of the quality and coverage of healthcare in the U.S. have been steady for the past few years, but are down from the first years of Barack Obama's presidency. Views have not improved since the Affordable Care Act passed.

In his recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, President Obama relied on data from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index to assess changes and identify patterns in states' uninsured rates.

Shortly after the Supreme Court turned back another legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act in late June, Americans' views of the law improved. Yet as many still disapprove of the law as approve of it.

Americans continue to rate their personal healthcare situations better than those of the U.S. overall on three key aspects -- quality, coverage and cost.

The majority of Americans do not feel that the federal government should take on the role of making sure that all Americans have healthcare coverage. This has been the case for five of the last six years, as I reviewed here and as depicted in ...

A majority of Americans say they are satisfied with their healthcare costs, representing little change over the past decade. Those aged 65 and older are much more satisfied with their healthcare costs than younger Americans.

Public approval of the Affordable Care Act has increased to 55%, tying the high in Gallup's trend.

Most Americans say the 2010 Affordable Care Act has been successful in expanding access to health coverage, but they are divided on whether it has reduced costs.

For the third consecutive year, a majority of Americans, 52%, say it is not the government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare. Prior to 2009, a majority of Americans took the opposite view.