The Cassidy-Graham bill probably won’t become law. And more than half of America is good with that.
By Amber Phillips September 22 at 4:30 PM
Republicans' last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare was always a moonshot.
A bill proposed by Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) looks like it doesn't have enough support in the Senate to pass a party-line vote. Republican leaders were trying to rush something through by Sept. 30. And now, we find, it's unpopular with the broader electorate.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that more than half of Americans prefer Obamacare (56 percent) to the latest GOP plan. A much smaller 33 percent of Americans prefer the bill that Senate Republicans, panicked by a month back home with their base and no Obamacare repeal to show, abruptly put on the table this month.
Worse for Republicans: Roughly twice as many people strongly prefer the current law to Republicans' plan, 42 to 22 percent.
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