Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Aug 2017
Public opinion about the future of the Affordable Care Act
31 August 2017 - In the early hours of Friday, July 28, the U.S. Senate closed debate on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act without the passage of any piece of legislation and after rejecting the replacement bill previously passed by the House of Representatives.
This public-opinion analysis offers a framework for looking at how the public as a whole saw the issues in this most recent debate.
Our analysis of 27 national opinion polls by 12 survey organisations provides background on four critical issues relevant to the previous House and recent Senate health care decisions: the public favourability of the current law, the public values underlying the debate about the future, support for various health policy changes in the proposed Republican legislation, and support for the overall Republican proposals debated in the House and Senate. Throughout the recent debate, polling organisations have used slightly different samples (either the total number of adults or the total number of registered voters).
