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Across all U.S. voters, the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” Act (BBB) is seen unfavorably by nearly a 2:1 margin. Underneath that top-line, Democrats, Independents, and non-MAGA Republicans oppose it, while MAGA supporters favor it.
But favorability erodes when people hear about possible health impacts, we learn in the June 2025 Health Tracking Poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The details on views of the BBB Act are shown in the first bar chart, with overwhelming disfavor among Democrats and Independents, and majority unfavorability among non-MAGA GOP supporters.
Next check into partisans’ lenses on reducing Federal Medicaid funding and what aspects are more favorable. Specifically — among Democrats and Independents, taking health care coverage away from people who need it is the lens on the policy change.
Among Republicans, the focus is on reducing fraud and waste, even more among MAGA supporting voters in the GOP. For one-half of non-MAGA supporters, the focus is on taking health care coverage away from people who need it (people of lower-incomes, the uninsured, kids, etc.).
The bottom-line is hopeful if you believe in universal health care and health access for all people: that is that 4 in 5 Americans overall say it’s government’s responsibility to provide health insurance to Americans with lower-incomes who cannot afford health care.
That splits favorably across all U.S. partisans: 93% of Democrats, 84% of Independents, and 62% of Republicans.
Health Populi’s Hot Points: Could we be seeing the growth of Americans’ health citizenship muscles in light of potential cuts to Medicaid for ourselves, our neighbors, our neighbors’ neighbors, the folks who care for our homes, lawns, and elders?
The last chart I pulled from the June 2025 KFF poll hints that indeed, most voters identifying as Democrats and Independents, and nearly one-half of Republicans, are concerned about increases in the uninsured due to changes in Medicaid and the ACA.
In June 2025, (politically) strange bedfellows are finding each other in that proverbial bed on this issue: take Josh Hawley, (R-Mo.) who wrote an op-ed essay in the New York Times on May 12 titled, “Don’t Cut Medicaid.” In the column, Hawley wrote of his party’s “Wall Street wing” that,
“This wing of the party wants Republicans to build our big, beautiful bill around slashing health insurance for the working poor. But that argument is both morally wrong and politically suicidal.”
He goes on to quantify the role of public insurance funding for health has for the health citizens of Missouri: one in five Missourians benefit from Medicaid or CHIP (the children’s health program), and that rural hospitals and providers depend on this funding.
“All of which means this,” Hawley forecasts: “If Congress cuts funding for Medicaid benefits, Missouri workers and their children will lose their health care. And hospitals will close. It’s that simple. And that pattern will be replicated in states across the country.”
Shades of Bernie Sanders!
Watch this space, because it’s one convergence across U.S. political parties with shared values for fellow Americans.
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