One-Third Don’t Know Obamacare and Affordable Care Act Are the Same -br Get the Upshot in your Inboxbr A sizable minority of Americans don’t understand that Obamacare is just another name for the Affordable Care Act.br In contrast, approximately one in six Americans, or 16 percent, saidbr that “coverage through Medicaid and subsidies that help people buy private health insurance would not be affected” by repeal, and 23 percent did not knowbr In the survey, 35 percent of respondents said either they thought Obamacarebr and the Affordable Care Act were different policies (17 percent) or didn’t know if they were the same or different (18 percent).