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spanone

(135,635 posts)
Fri May 26, 2017, 10:40 AM May 2017

Poll: 57% disapprove of GOP health care bill

Washington (CNN)A new poll shows trouble for lawmakers who back the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday found that a wide majority of voters -- 57% to 20% -- disapprove of the Republican health care bill. Those numbers are virtually identical to public sentiment both shortly after the bill passed the House in early May and back in March when an attempt to pass an earlier version failed.

The poll provides little comfort to anxious Republicans looking to 2018 and remembering Democrats' 2010 midterm losses after their successful attempt at health care reform. Just 17% of independent voters say they are more likely to vote for a member of Congress who supports the bill, while 41% say it would make them less likely to support that member.

Voters disapprove of President Donald Trump's handling of health care by large margin -- 62% to 32% -- and half of them think he should not support the repeal effort.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/politics/quinnipiac-poll-healthcare-reform-trump-media/

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https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2461
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awesomerwb1

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4. How on earth is disapproval so low?
Fri May 26, 2017, 10:51 AM
May 2017

Why isn't it over 70%?

The dems need to frame this....nevermind. I don't have high hopes for them improving on being on point. Sad.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
7. DEMs need to put the list in the face of voters of the organizations that
Fri May 26, 2017, 01:16 PM
May 2017

oppose TrumpCare:

from: [link:https://cooper.house.gov/groups-opposing-republican-health-plan|]

AARP
American Medical Association
American Hospital Association & Federation of American Hospitals
American Cancer Society Action Network
American Health Care Association
America's Essential Hospitals
America's Hospitals and Health Systems
American Public Health Association
National Disability Rights Network
National Partnership Women and Families
National Physicians Alliance
AFL-CIO
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
National Council of La Raza
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare
National Center for Transgender Equality
Catholic Health Association of the United States
American Federation of Teachers
National Education Association
American Federation for Suicide Prevention
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
HIV Medicine Association
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
MomsRising
Children's Defense Fund
Families USA
Consumers Union
Sister Simone Campbell, NETWORK advocates for Catholic Social Justice
Young Invincible's
Planned Parenthood

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