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Poll: 47% Disapprove of Health Care Law [36% Approve]
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| Contributor | Imperator |
| Last Edited | Imperator Mar 27, 2012 09:04am |
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| Author | DALIA SUSSMAN |
| News Date | Tuesday, March 27, 2012 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | More Americans continue to disapprove of the federal health care legislation than support it, with a deep partisan divide underscoring their views, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll.
Passed in 2010, the Affordable Care Act has never won the support of most Americans in surveys by The Times and CBS News, highlighting the Obama administration’s lack of success in winning over the general public to its signature domestic accomplishment.
Republicans have maintained a steady drumbeat against the law on Capitol Hill and on the campaign trail. Some of the legislation’s most contentious provisions will be under scrutiny this week at the Supreme Court where 26 states are challenging the law’s constitutionality in three days of arguments.
The new poll, conducted last Wednesday through Sunday, finds that 36 percent of Americans approve of the health care law, while 47 percent are opposed. By nearly 2 to 1, those who say they strongly disapprove of the law outnumber those who strongly approve of the legislation. Sixteen percent have no opinion.
Views reflect the respondents’ partisanship. A majority of Democrats in the poll approve of the law, though not overwhelmingly so – 56 percent approve, including 28 percent who strongly approve. Approval peaks among self-described liberals, at nearly two-thirds.
But intensity of sentiment is much stronger on the other side of the political divide, with most Republicans not only opposed to the law’s provisions, but strongly so. |
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