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Hey Republicans: This is what a majority looks like

It seems Democrats in Congress are not alone. According to a poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, three quarters of Americans agree with Democrats that Republicans should work on a bipartisan basis to take steps to improve the Affordable Care Act.  Highlights from the poll, courtesy of CNBC:

“…a whopping 75 percent of Americans, including a majority of supporters of President Donald Trump, want Trump and his administration to do what they can to make the Affordable Care Act work.”

“Most Americans want Obamacare fixed — not set up to fail.”

“A total of 54 percent of self-described Trump supporters want the president to make Obamacare work.”

“The survey also found that just 19 percent of Americans — and only 38 percent of Republicans — want the Trump administration to take steps to make Obamacare fail so that it can be replaced afterward.”

“And the poll shows that two-thirds of the public, 64 percent, said it was a ‘good thing’ that Congress did not pass the GOP bill to repeal and replace key parts of Obamacare.”

“More than half of respondents, 52 percent, said they were ‘relieved’ the bill failed to pass, and a total of 44 percent said they were ‘happy’ at that outcome.”