Majority of American Voters Want Medicare For All

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6 hours ago, Whispering said:

Misleading title.

From the same report you linked:

Larger majorities of the public favor more incremental changes to the health care system such as a Medicare buy-in plan for adults between the ages of 50 and 64 (77 percent), a Medicaid buy-in plan for individuals who don’t receive health coverage through their employer (75 percent), and an optional program similar to Medicare for those who want it (74 percent). Both the Medicare buy-in plan and Medicaid buy-in plan also garner majority support from Republicans (69 percent and 64 percent­).

Moving forward, half of Democrats would rather see the new Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives focus their efforts on improving and protecting the ACA (51 percent), while about four in ten want them to focus on passing a national Medicare-for-all plan (38 percent).

The share of Democrats who want Congress to focus on passing a national Medicare-for-all plan is down 10 percentage points from March 2018.

Net favorability is negative  if people hear it would threaten the current Medicare program (-28 percentage points), require most Americans to pay more in taxes (-23 percentage points), or eliminate private health insurance companies (-21 percentage points).

 

 

1. It doesn’t threaten Medicare 

2. Unless they’re told that the taxes that went up are less than the premiums, copayments and out of pocket expenses, then the question is garbage. 

3. Every Medicare for All bill that has been proposed doesn’t eliminate private insurance. Rather, they can only provide insurance to whatever Medicare for All doesn’t cover. 

 

As for your other statistics, it’s not misleading to point out where Medicare for All stands. I didn’t say it was the most favored proposal so I didn’t mislead anybody. 

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It's simply a better option than the Public Option in pretty much every way, just throwing that out there.

It only lags behind in the sense that it is attacked virulently and maliciously by Democrats and Republicans. 

But its the most moral and logical choice to solve our 2 core problems- exorbitantly high and rising prices for worse care, and a large number of people are not insured.

If Dems were really the party of the people, they would take it upon themselves to unite to try to push this through and go on the offense against the talking points, not feed into them for personal political gain (looking at Pete Buttigieg specifically)

That's all. The point about the popularity of the ACA being brought up is to say that this is something much more worth fighting for.

At this point, the average person that has been told that m4a "will take insurance away from a hundred million Americans and raise their taxes" but that the savior Public Option will "let private insurance AND public insurance win!" likely understands neither plan in depth.