Almost two -thirds of the adults opposed President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” in May by the House of Representatives, according to A KFF poll released Tuesday.
And even the most fiery supporters of Trump love the legislation much less if they learn how to reduce the federal spending on health programs, the poll shows.
The KFF survey showed that about 61% of the Republicans and Republican independent and 72% of the subset who identify with Trump’s “Make American Great Again” movement support the account that would expand much of Trump’s tax reductions, including the reduction of the Domestic.
But when Pollsters told the respondents of the survey about the consequences of the health care bill, the opposition grew among Maga supporters.
For example, after he was told that the bill would lower the financing for local hospitals and increase the number of people without health insurance, the support of those who go back to Maga decreased more than 20 percentage points – which resulted in less than half of the group that still supports the bill.
Ashley Kirzinger, director of KFF of Survey methodology and associated director of her public opinion and survey research program, said that it is no surprise polling that affects party relationships how most public views view the bill.
“But the poll shows that support, even among Maga supporters, drops drastically as soon as the public hears more about how the bill could influence the local hospitals and reduce medicaid coverage,” she said.
“This shows how the partisan lens carries somewhat when the public learns more about how the legislation could influence them and their families.”
KFF is a research, polling and news organization for health policy, including KFF Health News.
House speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican of Louisiana who won the legislation in the Chamber that he checks with one voice on 22 May, has urged that the bill would not “reduce medicaid”. The non -party -bound Congressional Budget Office, which calculates the effects of legislation on the deficits and debts of the country, says that the measure would reduce federal expenditure for Medicaid in 10 years by $ 793 billion, resulting in almost 8 million more people who become uninsured.
The bill stimulates solid opposition of the health industry, in particular hospitals that expect to see large cuts in financing as a result of millions of people who lose medicoid coverage. The legislation passed by the house would increase the frequency of suitability controls and require that most non-disabled adults regularly prove that they work, study or do volunteer work for at least 80 hours a month to retain their coverage.
“This is common sense,” said Johnson on 25 May about the CBS news program “confronted with the nation.” “And when the American people understand what we do here, they cheer it.”
Critics say that the bill marks the last attempt by Republicans to roll back the affordable care act.
While the Senate goes to a possible mood about its version of the legislation before Independence Day, the KFF poll Medicaid and the ACA shows more popular than ever.
About 83%of adults support Medicaid, including large majorities of Democrats (93%), independent (83%) and Republicans (74%). That is an increase of 77% in January, where the poll finds the biggest leap for the Republicans.
Medicaid and the related child insurance program for children cover around 78 million people who are disabled or have a low income.
About two-thirds of the adults have favorable views on the ACA, the most since the adoption of the law in 2010, as laid down in KFF polls. Since about 2021, the law has only been consistently popular with a majority of adults.
The views on the ACA remain divided along partisan lines, with most Republicans (63%) having unfavorable views and most democrats (94%) and independent (71%) view them favorably.
The poll has found other indications that the public may not understand the most important provisions of the GOP account, including the work requirements.
The survey finds two-thirds of the public-included the vast majority of republicans (88%) and Maga supporters (93%) and half (51%) of the Democrats-after support who require almost all adults on Medicaid to prove that they work or search for work, in the community, in the school, in the school, in the school in the school in the school, in the school in the school in the school in the school, in the school in the school, Community, in the community, in the community, in the community, the community service, exceptions, with exceptions, exceptions with exceptions.
However, the attitude towards this provision shifted dramatically when the respondents received more information.
For example, when most adults are told with medicaid, work or unable to work, and that those people can lose the coverage because of the challenge to document it, about half of the supporters changed their opinion, which resulted in almost two-thirds of the adults who are against medicoid work requirements and about a third support from them.
The poll of 1,321 adults was carried out online and by telephone 4-8 June and has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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