--- title: AHCA: 31% of Americans Favor GOP Health Care Bill description: Less than a third of Americans support the GOP health care bill aimed at repealing the Affordable Care Act, according to a new poll canonical: https://time.com/4771690/ahca-gop-health-care-bill-poll/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-08T23:07:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:48:59.613Z article:section: Politics og:title: Poll: Just 31% of Americans Support the House GOP Health Care Bill og:description: More respondents said they think it will be worse than Obamacare og:url: https://time.com/4771690/ahca-gop-health-care-bill-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbab355c13136568b/6988cc7ea988cade9e6bc21d/house-gop-health-care-bill-poll.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5298 og:image:height: 2980 og:image:alt: President Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Poll: Just 31% of Americans Support the House GOP Health Care Bill twitter:description: More respondents said they think it will be worse than Obamacare twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbab355c13136568b/6988cc7ea988cade9e6bc21d/house-gop-health-care-bill-poll.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll: Just 31% of Americans Support the House GOP Health Care Bill > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump looks to House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., and other House congressmen in the Rose Garden after the House pushed through a health care bill, at the White House in Washington, D.C. on May 04, 2017. Jabin Botsford—The Washington Post/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly May 8, 2017 11:07 PM UTC Less than a third of Americans support the GOP health care bill aimed at repealing the Affordable Care Act that [passed the House](http://time.com/4767631/hey-hey-goodbye-healthcare-bill/) last week, according to a [new poll](http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/tabsHPHealthCareReform20170505.pdf). While 31% of Americans said they support the bill, 44% of respondents said they oppose it and a quarter said they were unsure, according to the [HuffPost/YouGov survey](http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/tabsHPHealthCareReform20170505.pdf). More of those surveyed (39%) said the [American Health Care Act](http://time.com/4768740/democrats-health-care-vote/) would likely be worse than the Affordable Care Act than said it would be better (26%). The GOP bill passed narrowly in the House and now faces [consideration in the Senate](http://time.com/4769420/ahca-health-care-senate-vote/). 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