New poll on popularity of MFA finds most Americans STILL have MFA confused with the public option [View all]

[highplainsdem]

I want to emphasize this, because the poll supposedly shows how popular Medicare For All is, and you have to read a ways down in the article to find out one of the reasons why -- a lot of people apparently think MFA is the public option:

https://www.kff.org/health-reform/poll-finding/kff-health-tracking-poll-january-2020/

There has been some shift in the public’s perception of how things would or would not change under Medicare-for-all since the first Democratic presidential debate. Compared to six months ago, larger shares of adults now say that, under Medicare-for-all, people with employer-sponsored insurance would not be able to keep their current coverage (45% vs. 38% in June 2019) and people who purchase their own plans would not be able to keep their current coverage (44% vs. 39%). Additionally, larger shares now say that individuals and employers would not continue to pay health insurance premiums (50% vs. 39%) and that people would not continue to pay deductibles and co-pays when they use health care services (33% vs. 27%).

Democrats, in particular, are now more likely to be familiar with some of the potential impacts of a Medicare-for-all plan than they were in the June 2019 Tracking Poll. With the Democratic presidential primary campaign featuring extensive debates over Medicare-for-all, Democrats are now more likely than they were six months ago to say that under a Medicare-for-all plan individuals and employers would not continue to pay health insurance premiums (53% vs. 31%). Similarly, compared to six months ago, Democrats are now more likely to say that under Medicare-for-all people with employer-sponsored insurance would not be able to keep their current health plans (41% vs. 25% in June 2019), that people who purchase their own insurance would not be able to keep their current plans (40% vs. 24%), and that people would not continue to pay deductibles and co-pays when they use health care services (36% vs. 25%).

(Emphasis added.)



LOOK at that.

After all the campaigning, 60% of Democrats STILL don't understand that Medicare For All means people would not be able to keep their own insurance if they want to.

And last June, that was true of 3/4 of Democrats.

THIS is why I've said, again and again here, that polling on MFA that isn't perfectly clear on the differences between MFA and the public option will always show a lot of supposed support for MFA that's due only to confusion, since there are so many people who really think MFA is the public option.