Majority of Americans want Congress to move on from healthcare reform - Reuters/Ipsos poll

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Reuters

A majority of Americans are ready to move on from healthcare reform at this point after the U.S. Senate's effort to dismantle Obamacare failed on Friday, according to an exclusive Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Saturday.

Nearly two-thirds of the country wants to either keep or modify the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, and a majority of Americans want Congress to turn its attention to other priorities, the survey found.

Republicans have vowed to dismantle the Affordable Care Act since Democratic President Barack Obama signed it into law in 2010, and it appeared they finally had their chance when Republican President Donald Trump took office in January. But the law, which helped 20 million people obtain health insurance, has steadily grown more popular.

The July 28-29 poll of more than 1,130 Americans, conducted after the Republican-led effort collapsed in the Senate, found that 64 percent said they wanted to keep Obamacare, either "entirely as is" or after fixing "problem areas." That is up from 54 percent in January.



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[FakeNoose]

1. Stop giving them paychecks if they're not going to do any work

I'm serious, if any of us in REAL JOBS acted like this, we'd be fired or laid off.
The GOP are gold-bricking and they haven't done shit for years.

They're supposed to be passing laws and legislating this country.
Enough is enough!

[Rural_Progressive]

2. Lordy, don't already have enough laws

How about tasking a committee to go through old laws and dumping the ones that we don't need, clarifying the confusing ones, and simplifying the totally obtuse ones. That's something I'd willing see my tax dollars go to fund.

[LuvLoogie]

10. Yeah, sure. Like the Clean Water Act or the Voting Rights Act...

So, "dumping"...

Is that like voting or something?

[asiliveandbreathe]

3. Excellent post - thanks for sharing...so how will the republicans

squeeze the American people in order to pay their donors?? - this whole ACA business - ACA bad, Medicaid bad, was to pay back the donors...all that money tied up in healthcare for Americans..don'tcha know..

For some to say, the healthy are paying for those less healthy, or more needy, I find that disgusting....I say ins cos and big pharma are putting a huge burden on those less fortunate and less healthy..

For the US to be the richest country in the world - why do we have so much poverty in the US and the World? - the gap continues to widen between the rich and the poor....

So, where they gonna get the money for the tax cuts for the rich???? what do they move on to?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. For some to say, the healthy are paying for those less healthy,

That's how insurance is supposed to work.

I had health insurance at work that I never used till I was 32. I still had payments taken out of my paycheck up to that point.

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. I was referring to the panel at faux snooze - they made that comment

The Heathy pay for the less healthy - in so many words..I understand how it works..that is their whole - lame - argument....if I am not sick, why do I need to have health ins...etc etc etc....the individual mandate.....I do enjoy good health, knock on wood...

When I worked, I never paid a dime...had three kiddos..and still to this day, after 20 years retired, my Medicare, and supplemental ins plan D, is reimbursed by my company..yes I am very fortunate - but I truly am concerned with the way the haves, forget about the have nots..not all..but many...for our so called govt to put the squeeze on the American people, to give a tax cut to the rich..just disgusting..

And, They are still coming after Medicaid...as we speak....

be well...

[A Brand New World]

11. Same for car insurance. I'm 61, have driven and paid for car insurance since I was 16

and have never had a wreck. So that's 45 years of car insurance paid for no reason. But I wouldn't have done it any other way. That's how insurance works.

[DFW]

4. Someone please tell me

Since when has the general welfare of the citizens of the USA been a priority of the Republicans in the Congress of the United States?

[asiliveandbreathe]

7. The feathers are flying out of your comment, as you well know the answer....

NEVER>>>>nor did I imply they ever did....

[airplaneman]

8. Since when did congress care what the majority of people want???? n/t.

[jaysunb]

9. Republican Congress !! n/t

[Doitnow]

12. The rethugs need the money from denying health care in order to finance their rotten agenda and that

is why they can't get past the ACA. Plain and simple. Resist, it may be working.