Poll: By a Wide Margin, Democratic Voters Now Care More About the Affordable Care Act Than Republican Voters Do, And Voters Trust Democrats More Than Republicans to Handle Its Future

KFF December 1, 2023

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The future of the Affordable Care Act, an issue that was once a key health care issue for Republican voters, is now more important to Democratic voters, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds.

About half (49%) of voters say it is a “very important” issue for the candidates to discuss, including more than twice the share of Democratic voters (70%) than Republican voters (32%).

Fielded prior to former President Donald Trump’s recent social media comments on replacing the 2010 law, the poll also finds that voters give the Democratic Party a 20 percentage-point advantage over the Republican Party on who they trust more to...

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