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Affordable Care Act marketplace tax credits

Baseline proposition: Congress should extend the increased Affordable Care Act marketplace tax credits

Evidence outcome: Support

The deterministic population-consensus-without-cross-poll-averaging.v1 method classified the reviewed evidence as support for the stated baseline proposition. It did not average unlike polls or establish a campaign position.

What this does not mean

This profile reports reviewed public-opinion evidence for the exact proposition above. It is not factual proof that benefits or costs prevail, a participant mandate, a policy recommendation, or an official campaign position. Recommendation: none. Campaign position: not established.

Published exact Wisconsin registered-voter opinion context under the approved POLL-001 batch. Each proposition, population, uncertainty, wording limitation, missing voice, and no-position boundary remains separate.

Adults age 18 or older who were currently registered to vote in Wisconsin or planned to register.

In 2021, Congress increased tax credits that help reduce the cost of health insurance purchased through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace. Those increased credits expired at the end of 2025. Do you think Congress should extend the increased credits, or should not extend them?

Extend the increased credits
64%
Let the credits expire and return to the lower levels
35%
Don't know
1%
Refused
0%

Source and fieldwork

Marquette Law School Poll registered-voter toplines, July 8-16, 2026. Marquette University Law School; sponsored by Marquette Law School. 838 respondents, fielded July 8, 2026 through July 16, 2026. Evidence is current.

Official toplines · Official methodology

Method boundary

Directions apply only to the exact baseline proposition and do not establish a candidate position.

Reported margin of error is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points; sampling error is only one potential source of error.

Sampling, weighting, and limitations

Sampling: Full-probability hybrid Wisconsin registration-based sample and probability-based SSRS Opinion Panel, administered by web and live-interviewer telephone in English.

Weighting: Design weighting, source-specific nonresponse adjustment, compositing, and calibration to Wisconsin registered-voter demographic, 2020 presidential-result, and partisanship benchmarks.

  • Published percentages are rounded to whole numbers.
  • The survey was administered in English only by web and live-interviewer telephone.
  • Question wording, nonresponse, mode, order, measurement, and other unmeasured errors may affect the result.
  • This opinion item does not establish factual impacts, implementation authority, or a candidate position.
  • The statewide registered-voter result remains separate from affected-community evidence and member results.

Missing voices

  • Marketplace enrollees receiving credits
  • People priced out of coverage
  • Wisconsin insurers, providers, employers, and taxpayers

Conflicts

No conflict exists within the single admitted item. That does not establish broader agreement or replace missing evidence.

Reproducibility record

Method
population-consensus-without-cross-poll-averaging.v1
As of
2026-08-25T18:50:25Z
Profile version
132dba7e-59a5-5d63-aecc-33f80591e3ae
Profile digest
sha256:f31cf2255c51aeb1ece63c853f02b6d2e370e8d94e8e59a8f328ea7b7251459c
Issue version digest
sha256:7d358a4bc30ba16988e87ee46d647165f9dd723a0c6a669d2fc906e65568363f
Published
2026-08-25T19:36:47.004886Z