RUSH: This is a fascinating poll result. It’s IBD, Investor’s Business Daily. Headline: “People Like The Senate Health Bill More Than They Realize — Just 33% of the public say they approve of the Senate plan to repeal and replace Obamacare and 62% oppose it, the latest IBD/TIPP Poll finds. However, many of the specific provisions in the Senate bill get majority support. … Unlike other polls, the IBD/TIPP Poll restricted its findings on the Republicans’ Obamacare replacement plans to the 77% who say they’ve been following the health care debate closely.”
“[W]hen the poll got down to specifics in the bill, the picture changed dramatically. … The IBD/TIPP Poll found that many of the Senate’s changes to Obamacare are also popular with the public. For example, more than half the public (51%) back the GOP plan to get rid of Obamacare’s individual mandate. Only Democrats want to keep in place (65% say that). Fifty-two percent of independents want it gone, as do 69% of Republicans. The individual mandate is least popular in the South … and among those under 25…”
I can’t think of another poll that has even asked what people think about getting rid of the mandate, so this is valuable. Fifty-four percent “say they want to keep the employer mandate in the July poll, when IBD/TIPP asked this question in April, 53% supported the GOP plan to get rid of it.” So I think it’s kind of fascinating. If you just ask “Senate Republican health bill,” people by 33% like it; 65% say, “No. No way.” But go through it individually, and some of it has 51, 52% majority support.
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