Very Few Americans Want Obamacare Repealed in Full
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that more Americans than ever before support Obamacare and don’t want it to be repealed. Even more Americans responded they don’t believe Republicans will come up with a solution better than the Affordable Care Act.
45 percent of Americans when asked, “Is the health care law a good idea or a bad idea?” called it a good idea. 41 percent called it a bad idea, but this marks the first time since the poll began asking the question that more Americans support the ACA.
44 percent say Obamacare needs just minor modifications, and six percent say it’s working well. By comparison, one in three Americans (33%) say Obamacare needs a major overhaul, but about one in eight Americans (just 16%) want it to be repealed in full.
No further poll details have been released but chances are, as has happened in the past, when specific elements of Obamacare are polled they are extraordinarily popular. Those elements, like banning insirance companies from refusing to cover people with pre-existing conditions, Trump promised to keep, but the GOP repeal bill fully guts every element, including the most popular ones.
Republicans in the House and Senate are moving forward with their plan to repeal in full the Affordable Care Act, mostly by trying to defund it through a budget appropriations measure. Republicans have no legitimate legislation to replace Obamacare with something else.
Donald Trump this week said he will ensure all Americans have health care coverage – “insurance for everybody†– in stark contrast to GOP lawmakers’ goals and any substantive plan presented to do so.
Meanwhile, Republicans including Speaker Paul Ryan are lying about the state of Obamacare in an effort to, as NY Times opinion writer and Nobel winning economist Paul Krugman says, pretend it’s already dead:
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