Poll: Large Majority Wants Congress To Fix Possible Obamacare Subsidies Gap

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, left, and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, appear at a news conference as the debt crisis goes unresolved on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, July ... Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, left, and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, appear at a news conference as the debt crisis goes unresolved on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, July 30, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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Americans want Congress to fix a potential Obamacare gap by a remarkable 64-27 percent margin if the Supreme Court invalidates subsidies in three dozen states, according to a new poll released Wednesday.

Nine percent didn’t know or refused to answer the survey by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.

The party breakdown is below:

The survey featured a random sample of 1,503 adults in the U.S. from Jan. 15-21. It had a margin or error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

(Photos via Kaiser Family Foundation)

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  1. Oh they’ll fix it. And the price will be lots of the parts of the law that benefit consumers.

  2. We have a SCOTUS that has deliberately enabled the Koch bros to buy our government lock, stock and barrel. I guess we have to assume the GOP optimism that SCOTUS will gut Obamacare is probably well founded based on recent experience. If the GOP doesn’t really care about polling on hot button issues, like immigration, why would they even care about a poll like this one? It is, after all, a poll including the largely powerless 47% that they revile.

  3. Large Majority Wants Congress To Fix Possible Obamacare Subsidies Gap
    

    Which is another way of saying that a large majority of Americans is going to get screwed (again) by the Republican Congress. And yet they continue to elect Republicans to Congress. America – a nation of masochists.

  4. Avatar for rssrai rssrai says:

    Why would republicans miss a chance to see millions of Americans lose their health insurance and die quickly?

  5. I tend to think the strategy here after the SCOTUS guts the ACA, is for the GOP to fiddle with it, correct the one sentence, remove a few other things they really don’t like (risk corridors, medical equipment tax, etc.) and then pass it…braying loudly how they saved America’s healthcare from the incompetence of Democrats. Oh, and definitely make enough changes so they can start calling it something else besides Obamacare.

    Taking away healthcare insurance from millions of Americans is not a winning strategy in a presidential election cycle. Doubly so when your party is going to be looking for all those donations from the insurance and medical fields. And they aren’t that stupid. Proclaiming themselves the Savior of American Healthcare is much more in line.

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