POLITICO-Harvard poll: Obamacare repeal still tops GOP voters' to-do lists

Source: Politico




By DAN DIAMOND 09/15/2017 05:21 AM EDT

Republican leaders want to move past Obamacare repeal, but most GOP voters aren't ready to let them do it.

That's a key finding of the latest POLITICO-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll, which finds the Trump administration's messaging on health care is clearly resonating with the party's base.

The poll asked Americans to review and score 10 top priorities for Congress through the end of the year. Fifty-three percent of Republican respondents said taking action to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act should be an "extremely important priority," while another 26 percent of Republicans said it should be a "very important priority." Only 16 percent of Republicans said ACA repeal should not be a priority for Congress.

Congressional Republicans' efforts to strike down the health law have sputtered, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other leaders saying the party should move on to tax reform. But President Donald Trump has repeatedly urged the party to vote on Obamacare repeal one more time. The White House has thrown its support behind the last-ditch plan from Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Dean Heller (R-Nev.) that would convert ACA funding into block grants.





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