Barely a quarter of american citizens want ObamaCare completely dismantled, while up to 50 % need it kept as is – or perhaps expanded, pollsters said Thursday.
In a post-election poll commissioned by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, 26 % of respondents said they need all of the Affordable Care Act repealed.
Pollsters found that 19 percent of these surveyed said they like things as they are, and 30 % want ObamaCare expanded.
President-elect Mr . trump – who spent the campaign trashing ObamaCare and promising to repeal it – has already backtracked on that pledge.
Trump now says he really wants to keep a minimum of two major ObamaCare provisions – allowing children to remain on the parent's plan until age 26, and barring insurers from denying coverage according to pre-existing conditions.
That approach seems to complement 17 percent of poll respondents, who want ObamaCare scaled back but not trashed entirely.
Republican respondents, in a 52 percent clip, were strongly in support of killing ObamaCare altogether, this poll found. But even this is a shift down from 69 percent of GOP backers who said last month they wanted all ObamaCare trashed.
This poll was conducted between Nov. 15 and 21 having a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
