--- 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: 2026-10-08T08:21:50.931Z 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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The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has confirmed that the intelligence community collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition on numerous occasions_ by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Mar 23, 2017 4:23 PM UTC The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has confirmed that the intelligence community collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition on numerous occasions 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\. It has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. ## Transcript [00:00] Some significant developments occurred over the course [00:04] of the last few days with information that was brought to my [00:08] attention. So first I recently confirmed on numerous [00:11] occasions, the intelligence community incidentally [00:13] collected information about U. S. citizens involved in the [00:16] Trump transition. Details about U. S. persons Associated [00:21] with the incoming administration, details with little or no [00:25] apparent foreign intelligence value or widely disseminated [00:30] in intelligence community reporting. Third, I have confirmed [00:35] that additional names of Trump transition team members [00:38] were unmasked. Everything that I was able to view did [00:43] not involve Russia or any discussions with Russians or [00:47] any Trump people or other Russians. None of it. So none of [00:51] it has to do with Russia. That doesn't mean that doesn't [00:53] exist, but we don't have it. It looks to me like it was all [00:57] legally collected. 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