Public support for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has held steady in spite of the exchanges' widely reported website woes that have plagued enrollment and haunted the administration over the past month.

According to Kaiser Family Foundation's October health tracking poll, released Friday, the public remains divided, but largely negative, on the law. Forty-four percent said they have an unfavorable view of the law, while 38 percent view the law favorably, virtually unchanged from September's ratings. The remaining 18 percent said they "don't know enough to say."

Despite no change in public opinion over the law, the majority still acknowledge the implementation of the law hasn't gone smoothly. Nearly half (48 percent) said the federal government has done a poor job implementing the law and another third (32 percent) rate its performance as "only fair." State governments received higher marks for implementation, but the majority still rates their state's performance as "only fair" (34 percent) or "poor" (29 percent).