One in four registered voters support the latest Republican Senate healthcare bill that aimed to repeal and replace Obamacare, according to the results of a Fox News poll released Wednesday.
The survey results show 60 percent of voters think Congress should keep Obamacare and work to improve it, with 33 percent saying it would be better to repeal it and create a new healthcare plan. Just 4 percent said that Obamacare should remain in place and unchanged.
Repealing Obamacare has been a major campaign platform for Republicans, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has had a difficult time reaching the 50 votes needed to proceed on the healthcare bill.
Eleven percent said that Republicans in Congress would deserve no blame if Obamacare is not repealed. Thirty-one percent said the congressional GOP would deserve some blame, 20 percent said they would deserve most of the blame and 27 percent said they would deserve all of the blame for a failure to repeal ObamaCare.
After four Republican senators came out against the latest draft of the repeal-and-replace bill, effectively killing the legislation, McConnell attempted to pass a simple repeal of Obamacare, which was stopped on Wednesday when Republican Sens. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Susan Collins of Maine voiced opposition to it.
Seventy-four percent responded that Trump and the GOP should compromise with Democrats if they cannot agree on the bill. Twenty-two percent said Trump and the GOP should move on and start a new bill later.
Sixty-three percent of respondents would rather have more government spending on healthcare with more insured, compared to 27 percent who said they would rather have less spending, but with fewer Americans insured.
Healthcare was the most concerning issue for respondents of the 10 issues included in the poll. Eighty-two percent indicated they were “extremely” or “very” concerned about healthcare, followed by 81 percent for the future of the country and 75 percent for the economy.
Voter fraud had the fewest number of respondents “extremely” or “very” concerned with 50 percent. The poll’s release came on the same day that the Trump administration held its first voter fraud commission meeting.
The poll was conducted from July 16-18 by phone interviews of 1,020 randomly selected registered voters across the United States and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
