A new poll finds the secrecy behind the GOP’s drafting of a healthcare bill isn’t sitting well with wide swaths of the public.
About 73 percent of respondents to a poll from CBS News believe that Senate Republicans should discuss their plans publicly, and only 25 percent say it should be privately.
About 56 percent of Republicans and 81 percent of Democrats surveyed decried the secrecy.
Meanwhile, 41 percent of Republicans are fine with a private approach as opposed to only 18 percent of Democrats and 22 percent of independents.
But Republicans, Democrats and independents all say they don’t have a good understanding of what the healthcare bill will do. About 76 percent said they didn’t have a good understanding. Eighty-one percent of Republicans, 72 percent of Democrats and 76 percent of independents said they haven’t heard enough of particulars of the proposal yet.
The American Health Care Act, which passed the House last month and is being considered in the Senate, remains unpopular. Only 32 percent approve of the bill and 59 percent disapprove.
Senate Republican leadership is drafting their version of the AHCA, which guts Obamacare, behind closed doors. The move has ignited criticism from Democrats and even some Republicans.
Senate leadership is hoping to vote on a bill by next week before the weeklong July 4 recess.
The poll was conducted June 15-18 on behalf of CBS News and is based responses from 1,117 adults nationwide. It has a margin of error of four percentage points.
