Sanders Has It Exactly Right: Majority of Americans Want 'Medicare for All' System

[eridani]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/16/sanders-has-it-exactly-right-majority-americans-want-medicare-all-system

Notably, when the results were broken down by party affiliation, Gallup found that 41 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters prefer the public option compared to just 16 percent who would want to keep the ACA.

"This may reflect either that Republicans genuinely think a single-payer system would be good for the country, or that they view any proposal to replace the ACA ("Obamacare&quot as better than keeping it in place," the pollsters state.

At the same time, 73 percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning voters prefer replacing the ACA with a federal program while 79 percent of those voters would opt to keep the standing system.

However, Gallup found that those who favor both a federally run national healthcare system and the ACA, when given a choice, "come down on the side of the Sanders-type proposal."

"The general idea of a single payer system seems to play well with the majority of Americans," Gallup states, which is something both Clinton and the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump "will need to keep in mind as they debate healthcare in the months to come."

[Human101948]

1. I'm confused. Yesterday were told Americans don't want single payer...

AP Poll: Americans Don't Know What ‘Single Payer’ Means. And when they find out, they don’t like it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511972216

Could that AP poll have been constructed to give negatives results?

[eridani]

2. Call it Medicare and people like it. Call it government controlled health care and they don't

Why not ask those over 65 how many of them would give up Medicare?

[Human101948]

4. Yeah! Keep your government hands off my Medicare!

I'm for expanding it.

[Scuba]

3. Tough shit. Hillary's backers in the insurance industry already said "no dice" so just die already.

[eridani]

5. Anyone not supportiing universal health care is indirectly advocating mass murder n/t