Americans Don’t Want to Repeal Obamacare

A new poll confirms that the public is not interested in repealing the Affordable Care Act.

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The latest Kaiser Health Tracking poll confirms that the public is not interested in repealing the Affordable Care Act, whatever its misgivings about the law. In fact, a plurality (47 percent) say they want to either see the law expanded (27 percent) or kept as is (20 percent), compared to 39 percent who want the law either repealed and replaced with a Republican alternative (18 percent) or repealed altogether (21 percent).

And the public is strongly opposed to conservatives’ pet idea of cutting off funding for implementing the law if they are not successful in repealing it. Just 32 percent of those polled support such a move versus 58 percent who are opposed.

For more on this topic, please see:

Public Opinion Snapshot: Don’t Repeal or Cut Funding for Obamacare by Ruy Teixeira

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