Only one in five Americans agrees with the current Republican plan of repealing Obamacare without the details of a replacement being worked about, a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found. But the poll found a narrow divide among respondents on the question of whether to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
According to the survey released Friday, 47 percent of respondents said lawmakers should not vote on a repeal, 28 percent would prefer that a repeal vote wait until the details of a replacement planned are announced, and 20 percent would like to see a repeal vote immediately with replacement details worked out later.
The poll was taken among 1,204 adults nationwide by phone from Dec. 13-19, with a margin of error of three percentage points.
NEW POLL:
20% of Americans support immediate ACA repeal;
28% want to wait for a replacement plan;
47% oppose repeal https://t.co/9EJ35LxzyE pic.twitter.com/Y023W3yFxW— Kaiser Family Found (@KaiserFamFound) January 6, 2017
GOP lawmakers have put in motion the first steps of repealing Obamacare, though there are many question as to what the repeal bill actually look like, let alone the law’s eventual replacement. Some Republicans have publicly and privately expressed their discomfort with repealing without a replacement. Congressional GOP leadership, nevertheless, has remained steadfast in its professed intent to get a repeal bill on President Donald Trump’s desk soon after inauguration.
The Kaiser poll also surveyed Americans’ preference for how each party has broadly described its view on the role of government in health care.
It found that 31 percent agreed with the GOP approach, in Kaiser’s words: “limiting federal health spending, decreasing the federal government’s role, and giving state governments and individuals more control over health insurance, even if this means some seniors and lower-income Americans would get less financial help than they do today.”
Broken down by party, about half of Republicans (53 percent) agreed with that approach.
Meanwhile, 62 percent of Americans — including 79 percent of Democrats and 65 percent of independents — agreed with how Kaiser described the Democratic position: “guaranteeing a certain level of health coverage and financial help for seniors and lower-income Americans, even if it means more federal health spending and a larger role for the federal government.”
So, obviously, they have a plan.
(There is no way to make a joke or be mildly snarky here, and It physically hurts.)
Sorry, but …
We’ll meet again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15YgdrhrCM8Don’t know where
Don’t know when
But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day
Keep smiling through
Just like you always do
'Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away
So will you please say hello
To the folks that I know
Tell them I won’t be long
They’ll be happy to know
That as you saw me go
I was singing this song
We’ll meet again
Don’t know where
Don’t know when
But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day
We’ll meet again
Don’t know where
Don’t know when
But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day
Keep smiling through
Just like you always do
‘Til the blue skies
Drive the dark clouds far away
So will you please say hello
To the folks that I know
Tell them it won’t be long
They’ll be happy to know
That as you saw me go
I was singin’ this song
We’ll meet again
Don’t know where
Don’t know when
But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day
maybe someone could arrange it so that the 20% who now have insurance coverage but prefer that the whole thing just be thrown out could lose their coverage and let everyone else be able able ves in peaceto* live the rest of their lives in peace…
*apparently I shouldn’t be allowed to comment at 3:00A without benefit of an editor…
I suspect that the Republicans never really intended on repealing the ACA. They’re just threatening to do so as a way to distract people. Their real intentions are to undermine the regulations it places on the private insurance companies and increase the amount of money CMS gives to Medicare advantage programs.
Insurance companies just want to take over Medicare and Medicaid and do so with little or no oversight from CMS. All this talk about repealing the ACA just distracts us while they accomplish their real goal: loot the Federal government and decrease their accountability.
20% Public support = GOP self-declared MANDATE to act. Kellyanne will lead the charge explaining the Great Public Support and key RW media will pick up the slack and echo-chamber it until the general GOP voter, if if they are part of the 80% not supporting it, will think they are in the minority and the GOP and Team Trump are correct to act on this “Mandate”.