Spreading 'Like Wildfire': Majority of AmericansIncluding 74% of DemocratsNow Support Single-Payer

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

"Five years ago, could you have believed that half of Americans would agree we need a single-payer healthcare system?"
That's how Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)—a longtime advocate of guaranteeing healthcare for all Americans—responded to a new poll that found that 74 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of all adults surveyed support implementing a single-payer healthcare system in the United States.

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/12/spreading-wildfire-majority-americans-including-74-democrats-now-support-single?

Some will still insist that single payer is unaffordable.

What IS unaffordable is the current profit driven system.

[OilemFirchen]

1. Not gonna click on commondreams.

Whose poll is this?

[guillaumeb]

2. The Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll asked:

And the question followed.

[OilemFirchen]

3. Huh?

Do you have a link to the poll?

On edit: Never mind. This is the poll, already posted, which shows a 51% approval.

[AtomicKitten]

4. Single-payer saves money with 2% overhead just like Medicare.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/upshot/why-single-payer-health-care-saves-money.html

[guillaumeb]

6. But it interferes with the sacred right to profit on everything.

Most other industrialized countries have already solved this problem.

[area51]

5. Single-payer

FAQs.