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The March 25-28
poll asked who should take responsibility for the failure of the
American Health Care Act (AHCA), which Republican leaders pulled
from consideration last week without a vote.
Besides Trump, who backed the bill, and House of Representatives
Speaker Paul Ryan, who was expected to shepherd it through
Congress, the poll asked if people blamed House Republicans,
House Democrats or the media.
Republicans were most likely to blame Congress. Some 26 percent
said House Democrats were most responsible and 23 percent blamed
House Republicans. Another 13 percent blamed Trump and 10
percent blamed Ryan. Only 8 percent blamed the media. (Graphic:
http://tmsnrt.rs/2nhOmjI PDF link: http://tmsnrt.rs/2nhtM30)
Their assessment appeared to align with Trump's criticism of
Democratic leaders and the conservative Freedom Caucus, whom he
blamed for the bill's failure.
Overall, nearly one in four Americans, including Democrats and
independents, blamed Trump. Ryan, Congress and the media
received less criticism.
The Republican reform was widely criticized after estimates by
the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office showed 24 million
people could lose their health insurance over the next 10 years.
Trump said on Tuesday he still thinks healthcare reform can
happen "very quickly" in Washington, but he did not offer any
specifics on how it could get done, or what would be changed
from the previous bill.
Nearly half of all Americans said they would like to see that
happen, though the response was split along party lines. Some 80
percent of Republicans said they would like to see their party
take another swing at a bill, compared with only 25 percent of
Democrats.
In a separate poll conducted between Jan.7-23, 46 percent of
Americans wanted to keep Obamacare, the popular name for
President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, while fixing
“problem areas,” and another 8 percent wanted to keep it exactly
as it is.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online in English in all 50
states. The March 25-28 poll included 1,332 people, including
456 Republicans and 558 Democrats. It has a credibility
interval, a measure of accuracy, of 3 percentage points for the
entire group and 5 percentage points for Democrats and
Republicans.
(Reporting by Chris Kahn, editing by Ross Colvin)
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