Just 17 Percent Of Americans Approve Of Republican Senate Health Care Bill

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Source: NPR





June 28, 20175:00 AM ET


Americans broadly disapprove of the Senate GOP's health care bill, and they're unhappy with how Republicans are handling the efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.


Just 17 percent of those surveyed say they approve of the Senate's health care plan, the Better Care Reconciliation Act. Fifty-five percent say they disapprove, while about a quarter said they hadn't heard enough about the proposal to have an opinion on it.

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A Congressional Budget Office analysis released Monday found that if the bill were enacted, 22 million fewer people would have health insurance over the next decade due, in part, to the bill's rollback of Medicaid expansion.

"With numbers like these, it's not surprising the Republican leadership in Congress is having a difficult time building consensus," said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.............................

Read more: http://www.npr.org/2017/06/28/534612954/just-17-percent-of-americans-approve-of-republican-senate-health-care-bill

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-K.Y. (left), and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, speak to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
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[SharonClark]

1. But will anyone listen to them? The gop is hell-bent on its passage.

[Dave Starsky]

5. They don't care what we think.

This bill is going to get passed. It is up to all of us to deal with the consequences.

For a long time, I thought the very rich lived in a different world separate from me. It never mattered to me if these rich people were going to make a lot of money from financial exchanges that I didn't know or care about.

But I have since realized that those financial exchanges are targeted directly at me.

[Gothmog]

2. 17% of the population are idiots

[sprinkleeninow]

3. They're undoing themselves themselves.

A long ago friend's small girl announced one day that their kitty was cleaning himself himself.
I adopted that for use in my repertoire! 😁

I'm waitin' for implosion.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Suffers From Mental Illness Each Year ...

But only 1 in 6 approve of TrumpCare. Just goes to show that being mentally ill is not the same as being stupid.

[Turbineguy]

6. Sure.

But people were against trickle-down economics too and look how great that turned out!

[Matthew28]

7. We will see how serious they're in 2018

when it comes to voting....

If they're serious then Democrats will have a good year!