Survey: Obamacare helping millions

More than 60 percent of working-age Americans who signed up for Medicaid or a private health plan through the Affordable Care Act are getting health care that they couldn't previously get, a new nationwide survey indicates. And consumers are broadly satisfied with the new coverage, despite some cost challenges and an ongoing Republican campaign to discredit the law.

Overall, 82 percent of American adults enrolled in private or government coverage through the health law said they were 'somewhat” or 'very” satisfied, according to the report from the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund.

New Medicaid enrollees are even happier with their health coverage than Americans in commercial health plans purchased through the marketplaces, with 88 percent reporting they are somewhat or very satisfied, the Commonwealth Fund found.

Nearly half of consumers in marketplace plans reported difficulty paying premiums in 2015. The fund plans to update those findings with 2016 numbers later this year.

'This (report) doesn't mean that the law is working well for every single person,” said fund Vice President Sara Collins, the report's lead author. 'But in general, it seems to be enabling people to get the health care that they need.”

The Commonwealth Fund survey was conducted between Feb. 2 and April 5 among a random, nationally representative sample of 4,802 adults ages 19 to 64. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.