Confusion about healthcare reform still abounds for many, a Health Day/Harris Poll found.

Over 60 percent of the 2,100 polled were unaware that the new healthcare laws will increase the number of people who qualify for Medicaid. Just under three-quarters of those polled didn't know that there will be a new tax placed on medical devices.

Some believe that the widespread misunderstanding of healthcare reform stems from the fact that the system is confusing to begin with.

"The problem for the (Obama) administration is healthcare reform is fiendishly complicated because the healthcare system is fiendishly complicated, and it is not politically feasible to tear up the system and build it again," says Harris Poll chairman Humphrey Taylor. "Instead you have to build on the system that you have. When you try to build on a fiendishly complicated system, you have fiendishly complicated reforms."

On a positive note, nearly 60 percent reported knowing that private insurance companies will no longer be able to deny them coverage because of a pre-existing condition.

Currently, people with a pre-existing illness can get coverage through either a state or government-sponsored program if they've been uninsured for at least six months until 2014.