Republicans focusing on repealing the Affordable Care Act might want to consider yet another feature of the law Americans want to keep: Medicaid expansion.
ABC News reports 80 percent of survey respondents say lawmakers should preserve federal funding that resulted in the addition of 11 million low-income people to Medicaid rolls in states that expanded the program.
The Kaiser Family Foundation survey reveals strong support across party lines for keeping Medicaid expansion funding. Sixty-nine percent of Republicans say lawmakers should continue to provide the money, as do 84 percent of independents and 95 percent of Democrats.
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