Americans Want To Keep Obamacare, Don’t Trust Republicans On Health Care: New Polls
According to two new polls, Americans have very little confidence in Republicans when it comes to the issue of health care. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that half of Americans say they have little to no confidence that Republican efforts to repeal and replace Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act would make things better.
That represents a 16-point increase from February’s NBC/WSJ poll, which was before House Republicans disastrous health care defeat.
Source: NBC News
And that’s not the only poll that is finding strong support for keeping Obamacare. An ABC News/Washington Post poll finds significant support for keeping and improving Obamacare.
The poll found that 61 percent say that Obamacare should be kept and fixed rather than repealed and replaced and just 37 percent think it should be repealed and replaced.
And even more significant, 79 percent of Americans think Donald Trump try to make the Obamacare work as well as possible and not try to make it fail.
Source: ABC News
And possibly more significantly, the ABC News poll found very high levels of support for many key provisions of Obamacare. Americans broadly don’t support letting states exempt insurance companies from providing coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. In fact 70 percent of Americans
In fact, 70 percent of Americans say coverage for pre-existing conditions should be mandatory nationwide rather than left up to the states. “Similarly, 62 percent prefer nationwide minimum insurance coverage standards (for e.g., for preventive services, maternity and pediatric care, hospitalization and prescription drugs); just 33 percent would leave such standards up to the states,” according to ABC News.
Source: ABC News
About the polls:
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted April 17-20 of 900 adults, including more than 400 who were reached via cell phone. The poll has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.
The ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by landline and cellular telephone April 17-20, 2017, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 1,004 adults. Results have a margin of sampling error of 3.5 points, including the design effect.
