By Gabrielle Levy, Political Reporter | Aug. 11, 2017, at 10:50 a.m. US News and World Report
"President Donald Trump wants the Republican-controlled Senate to continue working to repeal the health care law he says is "failing," but voters – including a majority of Republicans – say they want him to try to make Obamacare work.
"A new survey released Friday from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation finds that 78 percent of Americans say Trump and his administration should "do what they can to make the current health care law work."
Following the defeat of repeal legislation in the Senate last month, Trump said he prefers to let the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, "implode." According to the survey, just 17 percent support the Trump administration taking actions to "do what they can to help the law fail so they can replace it later."
But 95 percent of Democrats, 80 percent of Independents, 52 percent of Republicans and 51 percent of self-identified Trump supporters said Trump should fix Obamacare rather than allow it to fail.
While analysts say the 2010 law is stabilizing on its own, Trump has not committed his administration to continuing to make payments to insurers to cover cost-sharing subsidies, resulting in uncertainty that a separate Kaiser Family Foundation analysis this week says is responsible for premium hikes an average of 19 percent over normal increases for next year".
"President Donald Trump wants the Republican-controlled Senate to continue working to repeal the health care law he says is "failing," but voters – including a majority of Republicans – say they want him to try to make Obamacare work.
"A new survey released Friday from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation finds that 78 percent of Americans say Trump and his administration should "do what they can to make the current health care law work."
Following the defeat of repeal legislation in the Senate last month, Trump said he prefers to let the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, "implode." According to the survey, just 17 percent support the Trump administration taking actions to "do what they can to help the law fail so they can replace it later."
But 95 percent of Democrats, 80 percent of Independents, 52 percent of Republicans and 51 percent of self-identified Trump supporters said Trump should fix Obamacare rather than allow it to fail.
While analysts say the 2010 law is stabilizing on its own, Trump has not committed his administration to continuing to make payments to insurers to cover cost-sharing subsidies, resulting in uncertainty that a separate Kaiser Family Foundation analysis this week says is responsible for premium hikes an average of 19 percent over normal increases for next year".
