MAGA backers like Trump’s ‘Big beautiful Bill’—until they learn of health consequences
And even Trump’s most ardent supporters like legislation much less when they learn how it would reduce federal expenses in health programs, according to the survey.
The KFF survey revealed that around 61% of Republicans and the self -employed Republican – and 72% of the subset that identifies with Trump’s “Make American Great” – will support the bill, which would extend many of Trump 2017 tax reductions while reducing expenses in domestic programs, in particular by reducing billion of Medicaid.
But when the pollsters told the respondents to the survey of the consequences of the health care bill, the opposition increased, including among the supporters of Maga.
For example, after having been informed that the bill would reduce the financing of local hospitals and increase the number of people without health insurance, the support among those who support Maga have lost more than 20 percentage points – which led to less than half of the group still supported the bill.
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Ashley Kirzinger, director of the KFF survey methodology and associate director of her public opinion and research program, said that it was not a surprise that the survey shows that the affiliation of parties affects the way in which most of the public considers the bill.
“But the survey shows that support, even among the supporters of Maga, falls radically once the public hears more on the way the bill could have an impact on local hospitals and reduces the coverage of Medicaid,” she said.
“This shows how the partisan objective wears out slightly when the public learns more about how legislation could affect them and their families.”
KFF is a research organization on health, survey and press policy that includes Kff Health News.
The president of the House Mike Johnson, a republican of Louisiana who won the adoption of the legislation in the chamber which he controls by a single vote on May 22, insisted that the bill did not “reduce Medicaid”. The budget office of the non -partisan congress, which calculates the effects of the legislation on the country’s deficits and debt, says that the measure would reduce federal expenses for Medicaid by $ 793 billion over 10 years, which made almost 8 million additional people are not assured.
The bill meets the strident opposition of the health industry, including hospitals, which expect to see major financing reductions following millions of people losing coverage of Medicaid. The legislation adopted in the House would increase the frequency of eligibility controls and require that most unabled adults regularly prove that they work, study or volunteer at least 80 hours per month to maintain their coverage.
“It’s common sense,” said Johnson on May 25 in the new CBS “Face The Nation” program. “And when the American people understand what we are doing here, they applaud them.”
Critics say that the bill marks the last attempt of the Republicans to retreat the affordable care law.
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While the Senate goes to a possible vote on its version of the legislation before the day of independence, the KFF survey shows that Medicaid and the ACA are more popular than ever.
About 83%of adults support Medicaid, a large majority of Democrats (93%), the self -employed (83%) and Republicans (74%). This is up compared to 77% in January, the survey finding the greatest leap in favor of the Republicans.
Medicaid and the health insurance program for related children cover around 78 million people with disabilities or who have low incomes.
About two -thirds of adults have favorable opinions on ACA, most of them since the promulgation of the law in 2010, as recorded in KFF polls. The law is still only popular in the majority of adults since 2021 around 2021.
ACA’s opinions remain divided along the partisan lines, most Republicans (63%) occupying unfavorable opinions and most Democrats (94%) and the self -employed (71%) see it favorably.
The survey has revealed other indications that the public may not understand the main provisions of the GOP bill, including their work requirements.
The survey finds two thirds of the public – including the vast majority of Republicans (88%) and supporters of Maga (93%) and half (51%) of Democrats – initially support almost all adults on Medicaid to prove that they work or seek work, school or community service effort, with exceptions such as care and disabled.
However, attitudes to this provision have changed spectacularly when respondents received more information.
For example, when they have been told that most adults with Medicaid work already work or cannot work, and that these people could lose coverage because of the challenge of documenting it, about half of the supporters have changed their point of view, which led to almost two thirds of adults opposite to the work requirements of Medicaid and about a third party supporting them.
The ballot of 1,321 adults was led online and by phone from June 4 to 8 and has a more or less 3 percentage margin of error.
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