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The Republican
bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which is up for a
vote in the House of Representatives later on Friday, is
expected to cut the federal deficit while greatly increasing the
number of Americans without health insurance.
Democratic leaders are unified against the bill while some
conservative Republicans have criticized it for not doing enough
to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, the measure familiarly
known as Obamacare which was passed in 2010 and was the
signature domestic achievement of former President Barack Obama.
According to the March 13-23 poll, 49 percent of American adults
said the AHCA was "not an improvement" over Obamacare, which
helped about 20 million people get insurance coverage. Another
33 percent said the Republican bill was "an improvement" over
Obamacare, and the remaining 18 percent did not know.
The responses were largely split along party lines. Some 19
percent of Democrats and 53 percent of Republicans said the AHCA
was better than Obamacare, while 73 percent of Democrats and 22
percent of Republicans said it was not an improvement.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online in English in all 50
states. It first asked if people were familiar with the
Republican reform. Those who said they were familiar were then
asked whether they thought it was an improvement.
Altogether, some 1,741 people responded to both questions. This
includes 673 Republicans and 829 Democrats. The poll has a
credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 3 percentage
points for the entire group and 4 percentage points for the
responses from Democrats and the Republicans.
(See a graphic of what Americans think of the GOP healthcare
plan:
http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/rngs/USA-HEALTH-POLL/0100407Y0HS/index.html)
(Reporting by Chris Kahn; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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