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Americans Don’t Want to Repeal Obamacare

April 25, 2017 at 7:16 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new ABC News-Washington Post poll finds just 37% of Americans say Obamacare should be repealed and replaced; 61% say it should be kept and fixed instead.

Even more broadly, the public by 79% to 13% says Trump should seek to make the current law work as well as possible, not to make it fail as soon as possible, a strategy he’s suggested.

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