American Health Care Act or ACA: Which health law do small businesses prefer?

Most small businesses favor the ACA over Republicans’ American Health Care Act, according to a Small Business Majority poll.
 

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Here are five notes:

1. Forty-nine percent picked the ACA over the AHCA.

2. Twenty-five percent favor the AHCA and 5 percent like both equally.

3. Once respondents became more well-versed in the ACA’s specific provisions, 58 percent supported the law.

4. Thirty-five percent of those polled said their business or their employees are enrolled in health markets the ACA created. Twenty-one percent are enrolled in Medicaid.

5. When respondents learned about specific AHCA provisions, opposition to the law hit 51 percent.

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