Two-thirds of voters in battleground congressional districts think it’s appropriate for Congress to “temporarily halt funding” for President Barack Obama’s health care law before most of its key provisions, including the individual mandate to buy health insurance, take effect in 2014, according to a new poll released Thursday by a conservative group.
Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 18, 2013. (AP)
The poll also found more than three-fourths of voters favor either slowing implementation or outright repeal.
The survey comes as Republican lawmakers and right-leaning commentators debate whether to threaten a government shutdown to defund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
The results found that 44.5 percent of voters favor repeal and 32 percent back slowing down implementation. Only 20 percent support going forward with the law. On the defunding question, when asked whether it would be appropriate for Congress to “temporarily halt funding for the health care law before these provisions take effect, to make sure they do no do more harm than good?” 67.8 percent said yes, while 25.3 percent said no. A small percentage of respondents said they do not know.
The poll of 1,000 voters was sponsored by Heritage Action for America, the political arm of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, and conducted by Basswood Research. It surveyed 10 targeted U.S. House districts – six represented by Republicans and four represented by Democrats. The districts were in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Utah and West Virginia,
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