Poll: only 24% of Americans approve of Graham-Cassidy
Source: Vox
With their deadline fast approaching, Senate Republicans’ rush to repeal and replace Obamacare remains as unpopular as ever with the public.
Only 24 percent of Americans support Graham-Cassidy, the health care bill Republicans are furiously whipping to pass ahead of September 30, according to a new poll released Thursday by Public Policy Polling. The poll is the first to date of the proposed legislation, which would cripple Obamacare’s exchanges and sharply cut long-term Medicaid spending while also taking billions of funding from blue states that implemented Obamacare and giving it to red ones that did not.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) has promised that the bill will result in more people having insurance. Most Americans do not believe him. Majorities believe that Graham-Cassidy would instead both raise health care costs for most Americans and result in fewer Americans obtaining coverage. Only 20 percent said they thought the bill would cover more Americans.
Republicans have run against political headwinds since first trying to pass their health care bill at the beginning of this congressional session in January. The House bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, passed in May, polled abysmally, as did the Senate’s later attempts in July. One poll from the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation found 63 percent of voters in deep-red districts disliked Speaker Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act. Another poll found support for AHCA at around 24 percent.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/22/16349470/polling-graham-cassidy-not-good
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pressuring the GOP. It has nothing to do with people at all, it has everything to do with money. The rich always want more money (it is the only sickness that influences their actions). People are not involved in their decisions at all. It has been this way for over 30 years, they live and breath $$$. As long as the billionaires are buying their votes we can not rest and think this battle is over. Stay vigilant and keep calling Congress (202)224-3121 until Oct 1st. DO NOT be fooled and relax. We have too much at stake (our lives, my life).
been at the end of WWII. Loyal uber ales. Only drops below about 20% IF the leader angers them by finally being seen as a hopeless loser, as happened with W in the last week or two,. when I saw a couple polls in the lower teens. Then it moved back up after into the mid 20s, and a while later into the 30s and on up again.
In June 2017 Gallop polled W's approval at 59%, btw, versus 63% for Obama. Oh, my people!
The Koch Bros are witholding sex....er....money from them, so they HAVE TO PASS IT!!!!
There's no way this poll could be accurate. Even the Republicans hate it, almost as much as we do.
Other than about 40-odd Senators in Washington, nobody wants it.
