12 August, 2017
Move on. That's what most Americans said Congress and the Trump administration should do after the Senate failed to approve legislation in July to revamp the Affordable Care Act, according to a survey this month.
People want President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to try making the Obama health care law more effective, a new poll revealed.
Nearly 6 in 10 people think the Republicans should work with Democrats to improve the health law.
If Trump and congressional Republicans proposed postponing the election to ensure only eligible citizens could vote, support from Republicans rises to 56 percent.
Around 4 in 5 want the Trump administration to take actions that help Obama's law function properly, rather than trying to undermine it. Trump has suggested steps like halting subsidies to insurers who reduce out-of-pockets health costs for millions of consumers. Most prefer that they instead move to shore up the law's marketplaces, which are seeing rising premiums and in some areas few insurers willing to sell policies.
By almost 2-to-1, poll respondents said it's good that the repeal-and-replace bill failed, and about 4 in 5 respondents want the White House and Republicans to focus on making the ACA better, the Associated Press reported.
A 60 percent majority said it is a "good thing" the Senate failed to pass an ObamaCare repeal bill, 51 percent say they're "relieved", 47 percent are "happy", 38 percent "disappointed", and 19 percent "angry". The House in May passed a bill to partially repeal the law and drastically cut Medicaid. Trump is to blame because he never led on health care.
The health law is more popular than ever with 52 percent of respondents saying they hold a favorable view of it. There has been a 9-percentage-point increase in people who hold a favourable view since November.
The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3 percentage points. That's the message from a national poll released by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.
