Poll: Majority Oppose Trump/Ryan Plan To Privatize Medicare
Source: oliverwillis.com/MorningConsult
Poll: Majority Oppose Trump/Ryan Plan To Privatize Medicare
December 13, 2016 Oliver Willis Politics 0
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A majority of the people responding to a new poll say they oppose the Donald Trump/Paul Ryan plan to privatize the Medicare system.
According to Morning Consult, 55 percent of voters say that Medicare should continue on its current successful path, while only 29 percent support transforming it into a private system. Ryan and other Republicans have used the euphemism “premium support” to describe the process of turning over the Medicare system to private, for-profit companies that would prioritize their own profits over patient health and safety.
Morning Consult notes that the option to transform Medicare has remained at the same level of unpopularity, with a November 2014 Kaiser Family Foundaiton report showing only 26 percent supporting privatization.......................
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.........................Democrats seized on potential Medicare changes as a regular attack point in the weeks following the election. While President-elect Donald Trump sought to differentiate himself from other Republicans throughout the campaign by saying he would not touch Medicare or Social Security, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Tom Price (Ga.), Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, have supported moving the program to a premium support system.
The older the voter, the more likely they are to want to maintain Medicare as it is now. Among those surveyed, only 18- to 29-year-olds had more favor reform (41 percent) than those who favored keeping the system as is (39 percent). Among seniors age 65 and older, 67 percent said they thought the system should remain as is, while 19 percent favored the premium support model.
Of the entire survey group, 15 percent said they “strongly supported” a shift to the government helping seniors purchase a private insurance policy and another 22 percent said they “somewhat supported” it. Another 14 percent said they “somewhat oppose” a shift, while 30 percent said they strongly opposed changes. Twenty percent said they didn’t know or had no opinion.
The poll also indicates more people think the proposed changes would do more harm than good. Forty-eight percent of respondents said the proposal was a bad idea, while 34 percent called it a good idea. Nineteen percent said they didn’t know or had no opinion........................
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