The American Health Care Act isn't popular and expectations are health care will get worse, not better, according to a new poll.
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds not only that the Affordable Care Act is more popular than the AHCA, but also the percentage of people expecting health care costs to rise has gone up sharply — from 28 percent in December to 45 percent now. They're not exactly optimistic about care quality, either, with about a third saying that they expect both quality of care and access to care to get worse.
Specifically, respondents see the AHCA as doing more harm to their health coverage than a straight repeal of the ACA. More than a third believe the AHCA will make it harder to get and keep health insurance, compared with 21 percent who see that happening with an ACA repeal. And 34 percent say the Republicans' efforts will probably make the quality of their health care worse, compared with 19 percent who say that about a repeal of the ACA.
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