A new poll shows that a clear majority of Americans support Medicare for All-until they are told what it is and how it would work.
The survey was conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, which regularly asks Americans about health policy issues as part of its Health Tracking Poll series.
One way to look at these numbers is as strong public approval for the broad outlines of a single-payer health care system, which would create a single national health insurance plan run by the federal government and financed through taxes.
The most prominent such plan is the one put forth by Sen. Bernie Sanders, which would eliminate all existing private health insurance plans in a four-year period.
The Sanders plan calls for significant reductions to reimbursements for health care providers, which, if implemented, would almost certainly put some health care centers out of business, reducing the number of doctors and other medical professionals.
Medicare for All proponents might be pleased with the show of support found in the survey, but what those questions mostly revealed was that people say yes when you ask them if they favor a health care system that is essentially cost-free.
So it's not surprising that Medicare for All backers are remaining relatively vague about the particulars of their plans-especially when it comes to financing-and that the phrase's popularity has coincided with its transformation into a non-specific catchall for additional government intervention in the provision of health care, whether or not that intervention amounts to a single-payer system.
http://reason.com/blog/2019/01/24/new-poll-shows-medicare-for-all-is-popul
The survey was conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, which regularly asks Americans about health policy issues as part of its Health Tracking Poll series.
One way to look at these numbers is as strong public approval for the broad outlines of a single-payer health care system, which would create a single national health insurance plan run by the federal government and financed through taxes.
The most prominent such plan is the one put forth by Sen. Bernie Sanders, which would eliminate all existing private health insurance plans in a four-year period.
The Sanders plan calls for significant reductions to reimbursements for health care providers, which, if implemented, would almost certainly put some health care centers out of business, reducing the number of doctors and other medical professionals.
Medicare for All proponents might be pleased with the show of support found in the survey, but what those questions mostly revealed was that people say yes when you ask them if they favor a health care system that is essentially cost-free.
So it's not surprising that Medicare for All backers are remaining relatively vague about the particulars of their plans-especially when it comes to financing-and that the phrase's popularity has coincided with its transformation into a non-specific catchall for additional government intervention in the provision of health care, whether or not that intervention amounts to a single-payer system.
http://reason.com/blog/2019/01/24/new-poll-shows-medicare-for-all-is-popul
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