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Posted: 2017-05-08T16:49:08Z | Updated: 2017-05-08T16:49:08Z

Less than a third of the public favors the new Republican health care bill just passed by the House of Representatives, a HuffPost/YouGov survey finds.

Thirty-one percent of Americans favor the American Health Care Act, which narrowly passed the Republican-controlled House last Thursday . Forty-four percent oppose the bill, which would repeal much of the current health care law. Another 25 percent are unsure.

As was the case during the GOPs failed attempt to pass the bill in March , Americans are more likely to be intensely opposed than even modestly supportive. Just 8 percent say they favor the bill strongly, with 34 percent strongly opposed.

Americans say, 39 percent to 26 percent, that the AHCA would likely be worse, not better, than the current health care law. Just 14 percent believe the AHCA would make things better for them personally, while 27 percent say it would make things worse. A near-majority, 49 percent, say they dont expect the bill to affect them very much, or that they arent sure what effect it would have.

While the new legislation is unpopular, those numbers actually mark a modest improvement over views of the previous iteration of the AHCA. A HuffPost/YouGov survey taken in March, just after the first version of the bill was unveiled , didnt directly ask whether respondents favored the bill, but a follow-up poll taken later that month put support at just 24 percent, with 45 percent opposed and after its demise, the plan became even less popular .