--- title: Graham-Cassidy Health Care: Majority Like Obamacare Better description: A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that 56% of Americans prefer the Affordable Care Act to the Graham-Cassidy Bill canonical: https://time.com/4954496/affordable-care-act-gop-repeal-poll/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-22T22:16:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:33:59.852Z article:section: Politics og:title: 56% of Americans Prefer Obamacare to the New GOP Health Care Plan og:description: A new poll finds that 56% of Americans prefer the Affordable Care Act og:url: https://time.com/4954496/affordable-care-act-gop-repeal-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2cae2f147aad951b/6988df1922fb8501f1e22fab/graham-cassidy-healthcare.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Rally to reject the Graham-Cassidy bill og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 56% of Americans Prefer Obamacare to the New GOP Health Care Plan twitter:description: A new poll finds that 56% of Americans prefer the Affordable Care Act twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2cae2f147aad951b/6988df1922fb8501f1e22fab/graham-cassidy-healthcare.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 56% of Americans Prefer Obamacare to the New GOP Health Care Plan by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 22, 2017 10:16 PM UTC  Several groups rally and march to U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner's office to pressure him to reject the Graham-Cassidy health care bill on September 22, 2017 in Denver, Colorado. Several groups rally and march to U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner's office to pressure him to reject the Graham-Cassidy health care bill on September 22, 2017 in Denver, Colorado.RJ Sangosti—Denver Post via Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 22, 2017 10:16 PM UTC The news that Arizona Sen. John McCain [will not support the Graham-Cassidy bill](http://time.com/4953920/health-care-john-mccain-graham-cassidy-vote/?xid=homepage) to repeal the [Affordable Care Act](http://time.com/4949837/obamacare-repeal-barack-obama-graham-cassidy/) has made it incredibly unlikely that the bill will pass — and the majority of Americans may feel relief, according to a new poll. A recent [Washington _Post_/ABC News](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/22/the-cassidy-graham-bill-probably-wont-become-law-and-more-than-half-of-america-is-good-with-that/?utm%5Fterm=.125f69ff661a) poll finds that 56% of Americans prefer the Affordable Care Act to the Graham-Cassidy Bill. Just 33% of those surveyed prefer the GOP’s hasty proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare. According to the _Post_, pollsters told voters that the bill, proposed by Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, would eliminate the requirement that most [Americans have to have health insurance](http://time.com/4952121/graham-cassidy-people-of-color/), phase out federal funds aimed to help people buy health insurance and allow states to write their own rules on health coverage. Among Democrats, 85% preferred the Affordable Care Act to the GOP replacement. Republicans said they favored the GOP proposal by 66%. About 23% of Republicans polled said they do not support the bill. The poll was conducted with 1,002 people between Sept. 18 and 22\. 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