{"id":1547,"date":"2017-06-28T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/senate-health-repeal-at-12-approval\/"},"modified":"2017-06-28T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T15:31:00","slug":"senate-health-repeal-at-12-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/senate-health-repeal-at-12-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Health Repeal At 12% Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In response to a&nbsp;<\/em><strong><a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/06\/28\/534612954\/just-17-percent-of-americans-approve-of-republican-senate-health-care-bill&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1500051000808000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHGuO-D9LZnIzjVUCVwNRI4pMjmiw\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/06\/28\/534612954\/just-17-percent-of-americans-approve-of-republican-senate-health-care-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>new poll<\/em><\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;<em>released today showing that only&nbsp;12&nbsp;percent of Americans approve of the Republican&nbsp;Senate&nbsp;health&nbsp;care&nbsp;repeal&nbsp;bill, DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Democrats believe that&nbsp;health&nbsp;care is a right, not a privilege, and we will continue to fight each day until that becomes a reality for every American. This bill will hurt millions of Americans across the country, including American workers, women, children, older Americans and middle-class families. This&nbsp;12%&nbsp;approval&nbsp;is more reason that instead of delaying, Republicans should stop their attempts to take away&nbsp;health&nbsp;care from millions of Americans and work with Democrats to improve upon the Affordable Care Act. Until then, we won&rsquo;t stop making our voices heard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/06\/28\/suffolk-poll-obamacare-trump-senate-health-care-plan\/103249346\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1500051000808000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFIqCOJTZpLjaBWWj8iuwo0d0N22w\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/06\/28\/suffolk-poll-obamacare-trump-senate-health-care-plan\/103249346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Today\/Suffolk University Poll<\/a>: Only&nbsp;12% of Americans support theSenate&nbsp;health&nbsp;care plan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Susan Page and Emma Kinery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just&nbsp;12% of Americans support the&nbsp;Senate&nbsp;Republican&nbsp;health&nbsp;care plan, a new USA TODAY\/Suffolk University Poll finds, amid a roiling debate over whether the GOP will deliver on its&nbsp;signature promise to&nbsp;repeal&nbsp;and replace the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>In the survey, taken Saturday through Tuesday, a 53% majority say Congress should either leave the law known as Obamacare alone or work to fix its problems while keeping its framework intact.<\/p>\n<p>But the dilemma for the GOP is this: Eight in 10 Republicans support&nbsp;repeal, and close to a third say the law should be repealed even if a replacement&nbsp;health&nbsp;care plan isn&#39;t ready yet. Just 11% of independents and 2% of Democrats feel that way.<\/p>\n<p>The divide between the demands of the GOP base and the skepticism of the broader electorate helps explain why&nbsp;Senate&nbsp;Republican leaders have been&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/06\/27\/senate-leaders-delay-health-care-vote-because-they-lack-gop-support\/103227846\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1500051000808000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHdsPEF2KJktyeQn-Rw44klb9RtJw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/06\/27\/senate-leaders-delay-health-care-vote-because-they-lack-gop-support\/103227846\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forced to delay a vote<\/a>&nbsp;as they scramble for the 50 votes needed to pass a measure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/usatoday\/editorial\/graphics\/2017\/06\/062817-Health-Care-Poll-ONLINE.png\" border=\"0\" height=\"390\" id=\"m_-4802746996039706659Picture_x0020_2\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/4\/?ui=2&amp;ik=df9410296b&amp;view=fimg&amp;th=15cef53b5f9f414e&amp;attid=0.2&amp;disp=emb&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ8ufUGLwQfZ8c6FfUMltu9DLSQg2TxgIPX9OVZ1CplXulGAc_i1GirvFKsbUKSp0toAuc_Rzc7h6gh--18Ra_doAPfpIoFFFJKiG-EoteeGip2irQtEYFXhZTM&amp;sz=w898-h780&amp;ats=1499964600802&amp;rm=15cef53b5f9f414e&amp;zw&amp;atsh=1\" tabindex=\"0\" width=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/06\/28\/suffolk-poll-obamacare-trump-senate-health-care-plan\/103249346\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1500051000809000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEjfBCeP9GDoD4G0BpN3iEBKbSf4g\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/06\/28\/suffolk-poll-obamacare-trump-senate-health-care-plan\/103249346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(MORE)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a&nbsp;new poll&nbsp;released today showing that only&nbsp;12&nbsp;percent of Americans approve of the Republican&nbsp;Senate&nbsp;health&nbsp;care&nbsp;repeal&nbsp;bill, DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement: &ldquo;Democrats believe that&nbsp;health&nbsp;care is a right, not a privilege, and we will continue to fight each day until that becomes a reality for every American. This bill will hurt millions of Americans <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Senate Health Repeal At 12% Approval - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/senate-health-repeal-at-12-approval\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-28T15:31:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/4\/?ui=2&amp;ik=df9410296b&amp;view=fimg&amp;th=15cef53b5f9f414e&amp;attid=0.2&amp;disp=emb&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ8ufUGLwQfZ8c6FfUMltu9DLSQg2TxgIPX9OVZ1CplXulGAc_i1GirvFKsbUKSp0toAuc_Rzc7h6gh--18Ra_doAPfpIoFFFJKiG-EoteeGip2irQtEYFXhZTM&amp;sz=w898-h780&amp;ats=1499964600802&amp;rm=15cef53b5f9f414e&amp;zw&amp;atsh=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/senate-health-repeal-at-12-approval\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/senate-health-repeal-at-12-approval\/\",\"name\":\"Senate Health Repeal At 12% Approval - 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