Only One-In-Four Americans Favour Full Repeal Of Obamacare

In contrast, 30 percent of Americans expressed support for expanding the law, while 19 percent said they hoped legislators would move forward with the law as is.

Of the 1,202 adults Kaiser surveyed from november 15-21, only about one in four Americans (26 percent) responded that they support a full Obamacare repeal.

Until there is a method to make certain that there is truly universal coverage, the premiums will continue to increase and insurer losses will drive more companies from the market.

The poll found majorities across party lines support numerous health care law’s provisions, but not its requirement that individuals have coverage or risk fines, and its mandate that medium-to-large employers pay fines if they don’t offer health insurance.

With Trump’s election, there are suddenly lots of questions about the fate of President Barack Obama’s health care act: Will it be repealed, in part or in whole?

And it’s true that with skyrocketing drug costs and high insurance costs, many Americans haven’t benefited from the expansive government foray into the health care system, and for some their health care situations have even worsened under it. Today the challenge is finding those people who are still uninsured, who don’t get coverage from their employer, and who make too much to get Medicaid.

For Secretary of Health & Human Services, Trump has said he will nominate the far-right Congressman Tom Price, R-Ga., who has been one of the staunchest opponents of Obamacare, has proposed legislation that would cut 14 million people off Medicaid and has long sought to scrap Medicare for a privatized, voucher-style health insurance system for seniors. That bill would have gutted some of the health care law’s main features: Medicaid expansion, subsidies to help middle-class Americans buy private policies, the tax penalties for individuals who refused to get coverage and several taxes to support coverage expansion.

I believe Trump will be able to keep his promise to provide free-market inspired healthcare. He and his congressional allies have promised to develop a replacement, but they have not indicated what that might include.

Many have felt the pain of Obamacare and calls for the law’s repeal have only grown.

“We are not going to rip health care away from Americans”, said Representative Kevin Brady, Republican of Texas and chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, which shares jurisdiction over health care.

According to the data, collected by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 69 percent of Republicans supported repealing Obama’s signature health care law in October; a month later, only about half supported a full repeal. The real plan is simply to go back to how things were before 2010. Under Obamacare, the highest rate for insurance paid by consumers cannot be more than three times the lowest rate paid by consumers. That argument has resonated powerfully with conservative voters nationwide. Among Clinton supporters, 79% held favorable views of the act.

More Americans want to keep the Affordable Care Act than see it killed or dialed back – and the law’s major provisions remain quite popular across party lines, according to the first comprehensive, postelection poll on the law.

This suggests the possibility that the plurality of people who gained insurance thanks to the law technically didn’t need a new program to become insured; all they needed to do was to sign up for public insurance they already qualified for. And she said if her first job offered health insurance, she doubts the coverage would be as good as her parents’ plan.