"My insurance cancelled be-cause of Obamacare. Now the out-of-pocket costs are so high, it's unaf-fordable," said Julie Bponstra, a cancer patient, in an ad attacking Gary Peters, a Democrat running for the Senate in Michigan. It turned out, however, that Mrs Boon-stra will save over $1,000 this year because of the health law; she just didn't know it. Mrs Boonstra's confusion is not unusual. Many Americans are eligible for federal subsidies to help pay for insurance, but don't know it. According to Kantar Media, a firm that tracks political advertising, health care is the main subject of campaign ads, especially Republican ones (see chart). Obamacare is unpopular-over half of Americans disapprove of it. Republicans talk about it constantly on the campaign trail, though not as intemperately as they did during their own party's primaries. Democrats scarcely mention it.
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