Fox News Poll: 27 percent
favor Senate GOP health care plan, as vote gets delayed, by Dana Blanton,
6/28/17 Fox
News
By two-to-one, American voters oppose
the Senate health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act -- even as a
majority wants to repeal at least some of the existing law.
That’s according to the latest Fox News
Poll, conducted Sunday through Tuesday evenings.
Among Republicans, 51 percent favor the
Senate bill. That’s in contrast to 75 percent support for the House bill
last month.
Overall, 27 percent of voters favor the
Senate proposal, 54 percent oppose it, and 18 percent are unsure. For
comparison, in polling conducted after the House health care bill passed, 40
percent favored it and 54 percent were opposed (May 2017). That’s the
plan President Trump has called “mean.”
“It seems likely that voters are
increasingly anxious about another significant change to their health
insurance,” says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who conducts the Fox News Poll
along with Democrat Chris Anderson. “I doubt they know much about the
substantive differences between the House and Senate bills.”
Senate Republicans released their health
care bill Thursday. After failing to gain enough support to pass it, GOP
Senate leaders Tuesday delayed the health care vote until after their July
recess.
The Congressional Budget Office
estimated Monday that the plan would cut the federal deficit by more than $320
billion in the next decade and 22 million more people would be uninsured by
2026 under the plan compared with ObamaCare.
Meanwhile, a record number of voters, 52
percent, view the Affordable Care Act positively. That’s up from 50
percent in March, and 41 percent in August 2015. Forty-six percent
currently view ObamaCare negatively.
Lower-income voters (55 percent), women
(58 percent), urban voters (63 percent), non-whites (77 percent), and Democrats
(89 percent) give ObamaCare some of its highest favorable ratings.
When asked what should happen to President
Obama’s signature health care law, a majority wants to repeal all (28 percent)
or parts of the law (33 percent). Some 25 percent say expand it, while 12
percent would leave it as is.
One-third of those who have a favorable
view of ObamaCare want to repeal at least some of the law (33 percent).
Yet even those who want to repeal all or
some of the Affordable Care Act are skeptical of the Senate bill: 38
percent favor it, and 38 percent are opposed.
President Trump receives his worst job
ratings on health care: 36 percent approve vs. 55 percent disapprove.
That puts him underwater by 19 points.
President Donald Trump speaks during an
energy roundtable with tribal, state, and local leaders in the Roosevelt Room
of the White House, Wednesday, June 28, 2017, in Washington. He gets positive
ratings on the economy (48-43 percent) and terrorism (48-45 percent).
In general, voters think Republicans
would do a better job handling terrorism (+19 points), the federal deficit
(+15), the economy (+8), cyberattacks (+8), and taxes (+4). They think
Democrats would do a better job on health care (+12 points) and give the
Democrats a huge edge on climate change (+37). It’s mostly a draw on
immigration (Democrats +2 points).
How likely is it that Congress will act
on these issues? That depends on where you stand politically. Twice
as many Republicans (40 percent) as Democrats (19 percent) think it’s extremely
or very likely ObamaCare will be repealed this year.
Among all voters, there are modest
expectations repeal, or much of anything of substance, will happen in
2017. On repeal, 28 percent think it’s extremely or very likely.
That’s about the same as believe tax reform legislation will pass and Congress
will approve funding for major infrastructure projects. Fewer, 13
percent, expect funding for a border wall to receive Congressional
approval.
Pollpourri
There isn’t much love for Washington
these days. Almost every leader has a net negative rating (favorable
minus unfavorable).
House Speaker Paul Ryan (37 percent) and
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (33 percent) garner higher favorable ratings
than their counterparts Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (26 percent) and
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (25 percent).
More voters have a positive view of Vice
President Mike Pence (47 percent) and President Donald Trump (47 percent) than
the folks at the opposite end of Pennsylvania Avenue. However, First Lady
Melania Trump is even more popular, as 51 percent of voters have a favorable
opinion of her. That’s up from 37 percent in December.
Among Republicans, positive views hit 88
percent for the president and 82 percent for the first lady.
The Fox News poll is based on landline
and cellphone interviews with 1,017 randomly chosen registered voters
nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins
Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from June 25-27, 2017.
The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage
points for all registered voters.
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