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Party Affiliation Still Dictates Views of Obamacare

Democrats remain the big fans of Obamacare, a central issue in the ongoing confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, while Republicans still want to see it go away.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 49% of all Likely U.S. Voters consider Obamacare important to their personal health care, with 32% who say it’s Very Important. This is up slightly from 45% and 29% respectively in early March. Just as many (48%) rate it unimportant to their personal health, including 31% who view it as Not At All Important. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

But as in the previous survey, Democrats (68%) are far more likely than Republicans (32%) and voters not affiliated with either major party (44%) to rate the national health care law as important to their health.

The Supreme Court is considering a case that challenges the constitutionality of Obamacare, and 59% of GOP voters think it would be good for most Americans if what’s left of it is repealed. Sixty-four percent (64%) of Democrats and 48% of unaffiliateds disagree.

Among all voters, 39% think repeal would be good for most Americans, 46% bad. Seven months ago, voters were evenly divided on this question. Five percent (5%) now say repeal would have no impact, while 10% are not sure.

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted October 12-13, 2020 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

The Trump administration abolished Obamacare’s requirement that all Americans must buy or obtain health insurance. Most voters opposed the so-called individual mandate from its inception

While health care costs continue to rise in America, 39% of voters believe Obamacare has lowered the cost of health care for most Americans. Forty-six percent (46%) disagree, while 14% are not sure.

Sixty-one percent (61%) of Democrats credit Obamacare with bringing health care costs down. Seventy percent (70%) of Republicans and a plurality (49%) of unaffiliated voters say it isn’t so.

Similarly, 73% of Democrats and unaffiliateds by a 42% to 35% margin believe Obamacare has improved the quality of health care for most Americans. Sixty-four percent (64%) of Republicans disagree.

Among all voters, 48% say Obamacare has improved the quality of care for most. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree, while 14% are undecided.

Voters have long been much more critical of the overall U.S. health care system than of the care they personally receive.

Obamacare opponents fear government control of health care, but in March with the coronavirus pandemic looming, 45% of voters favored a single-payer health care system where the government provides coverage for everyone.

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted October 12-13, 2020 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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