A new Morning Consult/Politico poll found half of registered voters disapprove of President Donald Trump’s decision not to reopen the Affordable Care Act’s HealthCare.gov portal for a special enrollment period, while 30 percent approve. Fifty-three percent of Republican voters approve of Trump’s move, but 22 percent disapprove. Independent voters disapprove of the decision by a margin of 22 percentage points, while Democrats disapprove by a 67-point margin.

In defense of the decision, Trump administration officials have noted that people who lost their employer-provided coverage are eligible for a special enrollment period or Medicaid, depending on the state, and Trump said Friday that uninsured Americans should not be concerned about costs associated with COVID-19 treatment.

The decision has implications for large swaths of the country, as a recent Economic Policy Institute report found an estimated 3.5 million Americans likely lost their employer-provided health insurance in recent weeks. Nearly two-thirds of states rely on the federal health insurance marketplace, including much of red-state America, while six others use the federal platform, which controls eligibility and enrollment functions, to administer their own marketplace, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

A dozen states — including New York, California and Minnesota — and the District of Columbia administer their own insurance marketplaces, and all of them but Idaho have reopened them in recent weeks to account for the influx of newly unemployed and uninsured people