When it comes to what should be implemented to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), voters, merely like Congress, are sharply classified along political lines.
Since the passage of the healthcare reform law in the year 2010, congressional Republicans have launched various drives — more than fifty, all unsuccessful — to repeal the law, which, among other things, mandates that entire but the smallest employers provide coverage and offers billions of dollars in federal premium subsidies to the lower-income uninsured to gain coverage in public exchanges.
Those repeal attempts clearly are backed by Republican voters. 60% of individuals reacting to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, which was released previous week, stated the ACA should be repealed and then replaced with a Republican alternative.
By contrast, just 8% of Democratic respondents back repeal, while a majority — 54%— claim Congress should work to make better the healthcare reform law.
That near total contrast — deployed on political affiliation — of voters on whether the ACA should sustain the law is not shocking, Kaiser executives and others say.
“Every time we have done such surveys, they indicate how deep the partisan divides are,” claimed Liz Hamel, Kaiser Director of public opinion and survey research in Menlo Park, Calif.
Lawmakers “are not ahead of their constituencies,” added Geoff Manville, a principal with Mercer L.L.C. in Washington.
Respondents, such as lawmakers, also are classified based on their political affiliation on whether it is time to shift concentration away from the healthcare reform law and move on to other problems.
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