UF Poll: Most Floridians Have Major Problems With Obamacare

The Bob Graham Center for Public Service and the University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research unveiled a poll on Thursday which finds more than two-thirds of registered voters have major problems with President Barack Obamas federal health-care law.

The poll of registered voters finds 38 percent of those surveyed wanting to repeal the health-care law while 29 percent want to make major changes to it. More than a quarter of those surveyed -- 27 percent -- want to make minor changes to the law while only 12 percent want to keep the law as it currently is with no changes.

Despite this, two-thirds of those surveyed -- 67 percent -- want to expand the state Medicaid program while 28 percent oppose expanding it.

These apparently contradictory findings are understandable, said Paul Duncan, the associate dean of the Graduate School and a professor in the College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida. The Affordable Care Act is large and complicated -- just like our health care system -- so when an unprecedented level of partisan political noise is added, inconsistency in public opinion is almost certain.

The poll of 1,006 registered voters was taken from Jan. 27-Feb. 1 and had a margin of error of +/- 3 percent.