Medicade has always been very popular, which is why the latest number on it also surprises polster Ashley Kirzinger,

“We are actually a very important growth in Medicade popularity,” Ki Kirzinger says, who is the director of the survey method for the Health Research Organization, KFF. according to a Pole published Tuesday83% of the public have medicade -friendly ideas. A few months ago, in January, this figure was 77% of the public.

4 in 4 Republican voters support

“The biggest lift we saw in the compatibility of the last few months, the Republican was,” says Kirzinger. Three of the four Republican now now say that they look at the Medicade favorably.

Many people are listening to the Republican cut in the news as this popularity hike. This is one of the most difficult political issues for Republican MPs who are trying to navigate narrow prominence to pass their tax and budget bill in both houses of the Congress. Law, officially nominated “A big beautiful bill act”Passed the House, and the Senate is trying to pass its version before the July 4 holiday.

This budget bill is much less popular than the Medicade, KFF pole found. Overall, two out of three Americans have adverse views of the bill. Those who support President Trump likes the bill, but they also like Medicid, calling Kirzinger.

Support for more Medicade Funding

Provides health coverage to Medicade 71 million Low income and disabled people across the country. (Since the Medicade goes by many different names, such as the health of apple in the state of Kansas and apple in the state of Washington, the pollutants ask their Medicade questions using the name of the program in the home state of the pollutants, Kirzinger explains.) Children with an additional 7 million low income are nominated in children’s health insurance programs, known as chips.

The popularity of the Medicade is its reach. “A large part of the public says that either they or a member of the family have received some types of coverage through Medicid,” says Kirzinger. “Once people are thinking about Medicade as a program that has benefited himself or family member, it hits a little bit about the house for them.”

In fact, “People want to see the increased expenses on the Medicade and do not want to see it cut off,” she says. in March, KFF found Only 17% of the people were in favor of a decrease in federal funds for the Medicade, and 42% said it should actually be increased.

Medicade is funded by a combination of state and federal tax dollars. The existing budget bill in the Senate cuts is being expelled About $ 800 billion In the federal expenses on the medicade to help pay payments to increase tax deduction and limit spending.

Language matters

“The attitude towards the bill is actually subject to the message,” says Kirzinger, who talks at the speed on which a thousand-page bills have gone through the process of making laws.

“If you tell people that it will reduce money for local hospitals, adversity becomes about eight in ten. If you tell people that it will increase without license. [population] By about 10 million people, adversity increases to three in four. ,

Republican MPs have reduced the estimated financial Impact in rural hospitals And the number of people who can be unlicensed, targets to frame the proposed changes as targeting those who are not worth coverage.

Rape like this. Brett Guthari, R-K. An opinion piece For Fox News earlier this month.

“Every weak American who requires a medicade should be preserved and access to care,” he wrote. “This is why the House Republican has cured a bill, which re -receives the encouragement in the Medicade for the states, which is for the care of the weakest people on those who are not eligible for the program, including illegal immigrants.”

Members of the Disability Rights Group Adapt showed on 13 May to oppose the budget reconciliation of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in Washington, DC.

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Democrats and health advocacy groups emphasize the estimated effects of the bill. Senator Patty Murray, D-W, Disability, “Senator Patty Murray, D-W., D-W., D-W., D-W. Said at a press conference Last week with health providers and Medicade beneficiaries.

The KFF pole found that the current is concerned about losing coverage near the Medicade. “Most of them say that it would be very difficult for them to see the health care provider or to pay for any other form of health insurance coverage, and about two -thirds say that it would be difficult for them to bear their prescription drugs, which they trust,” Kirzinger says.

“Most of them say that this will not only have a major impact on their financial good and the overall quality of their lives, but also their mental and physical health,” she says.