--- title: Obamacare Repeal: Only 17 Percent of Voters Back Bill description: The Republican health care bill got some bad news on the day the House is scheduled to vote: Only 17 percent of American voters approve. canonical: https://time.com/4711225/obamacare-repeal-health-care-poll/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-23T16:23:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:00:26.735Z article:section: Politics og:title: Only 17 Percent of Voters Like the GOP Health Care Bill og:description: Meanwhile, 56 percent disapprove. og:url: https://time.com/4711225/obamacare-repeal-health-care-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta855f83c32071d21/6988bec70a4a2252249cd53c/gettyimages-6505162901.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Paul Ryan og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Only 17 Percent of Voters Like the GOP Health Care Bill twitter:description: Meanwhile, 56 percent disapprove. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta855f83c32071d21/6988bec70a4a2252249cd53c/gettyimages-6505162901.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Only 17 Percent of Voters Like the GOP Health Care Bill: Poll > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Mar 23, 2017 4:23 PM UTC  Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., conducts a presentation in the House studio of the American Health Care Act, the GOP's plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, March 9, 2017. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., conducts a presentation in the House studio of the American Health Care Act, the GOP's plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, March 9, 2017. Tom Williams—CQ-Roll Call,Inc. by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Mar 23, 2017 4:23 PM UTC The Republican health care bill got some bad news on the day the House is [scheduled to vote](http://time.com/4710735/republican-health-care-repeal-bill-obamacare/): Only 17 percent of American voters approve of the proposal. According to [a Quinnipiac University national poll](https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2443) released Thursday, 56 percent of Americans disapprove of the Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act, with 26 percent undecided. “Replacing Obamacare will come with a price for elected representatives who vote to scrap it, say many Americans, who clearly feel their health is in peril under the Republican alternative,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. The poll also found that 46 percent said they would be less likely to vote for their lawmakers if they back the Republican health care law, while only 19 percent said they would be more likely and 29 percent said it would not matter. An even higher number opposed cuts to Medicaid. Voters opposed cutting federal funding to the health care program for the poor by 74 to 22 percent. [One recent version of the bill](http://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/tns-states-medicaid-health-vote.html) would not allow any more states to expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, allow states to require some enrollees work as a condition of getting coverage and begin reducing enrollment through attrition in 2020. The survey of 1,056 voters across the country was conducted on landlines and cell phones from March 16 to 21\. 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