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Alaska Dispatch News poll: Affordable Care Act

Editor's note: Daily through Jan. 25, ADN will publish poll results showing how Alaskans feel about topics ranging from the Affordable Care Act and President-elect Donald Trump's transition to crime and the opioid crisis. 

With the Republican Congress and incoming Republican president opposed to President Obama's signature law — the Affordable Care Act — Alaskans say they, too, don't like it. According to a public opinion poll conducted among 750 respondents last month for Alaska Dispatch News by Ivan Moore's Alaska Survey Research, 60 percent said they disapprove of the 2010 law. Then, asked what Congress should do, almost 51 percent said "repeal it."

Disapproval held sway in every region of Alaska, though Democrats strongly supported the law and Republicans strongly opposed it. Women were almost as likely to oppose "Obamacare" as men in Alaska.

But attitudes differed remarkably over what to do about the law. Only two regions — Southeast and Southcentral not including Anchorage — wanted to repeal the law, while in Anchorage, 28 percent thought it should be expanded and 19.2 percent wanted it left alone. Married men were far more likely to support repeal, at 59.1 percent, than single women, at 43.8 percent.

See the full set of questions and cross tabs for this survey question here. The poll was conducted as part of the quarterly Alaska Survey.

The Alaska Survey is a statewide public opinion survey project consisting of 750 interviews with randomly selected Alaskans aged 18+. 500 interviews are conducted on cellphones, 250 on landlines. With the exception of rural Alaska, all numbers for this study are generated randomly onto the set of active Alaska telephone prefixes, with no calling done to lists or phone book records. Survey completions are apportioned appropriately by geographic area in Alaska, and collected data is weighted to make the sample representative of the Alaska population by gender, ethnicity and age, according to latest Census estimates, and also by land/cell phone status. The full sample of 750 (MOE +3.6%) contains a subsample of 624 registered voters (MOE +3.9%).

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What do you think? Do you approve or disapprove of the Affordable Care Act, passed by President Obama and Congress in 2010? Why? What do you think Congress should do now? Keep it civil and on topic and avoid personal attacks. 

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