A new poll found that 66 percent of voters disapprove of the Justice Department’s decision to support a lawsuit that would end Obamacare’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
The poll published Sunday in Forbes comes as Democrats and pro-Obamacare allies are trying to seize on the Justice Department’s decision ahead of the 2018 midterms.
The Trump administration announced a few weeks ago it would no longer defend Obamacare in court. It also supported a lawsuit filed by Texas and 19 other states that claim the law’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions should be eliminated because the penalty for violating the law’s individual mandate has been zeroed out.
The poll also found that voters response intensely to the issue. Of the 66 percent of voters that did not approve of the Trump administration’s move, 47 percent “strongly” disapproved, Forbes said.
“Voters respond with notable intensity to this decision, and almost half believe it could directly impact their own households,” said Geoff Garin, president of Hart Research, which conducted the poll.
Medical groups have also clamored for the Trump administration to rescind the decision. The American Medical Association and several other groups such as the American Academy of Family Physicians and the insurance group America’s Health Insurance Plans have opposed the move.
The poll sampled 1,000 registered voters and did not list a margin of error.
