Who would support single payer universal health care or Medicare for all?
The Nurses Union for one.
Bernie Sanders scores nurses union endorsement
CNN)National Nurses United -- a 185,000-person union and the largest group of nurses in the country -- endorsed Bernie Sanders at their national conference Monday.
The endorsement is significant because it is Sanders' first sizable union endorsement in his quest for the Democratic nomination and comes after Sanders and other Democratic candidates pitched themselves to the AFL-CIO, a group that includes the nurses union, last month.
"Bernie Sanders has a proven track record of uncompromised activism and advocacy for working people, and a message that resonates with nurses, and, as we have all seen, tens of thousands of people across the country," NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro said in a press release announcing the endorsement. "He can talk about our issues as well as we can talk about our issues. We are proud to stand with him in his candidacy for President today."
The nurses organization officially announced their support at an event with Sanders in Oakland, California. The group, which is 90% women, called the meeting a "Brunch with Bernie."
"Bernie's issues align with nurses from top to bottom," DeMoro said, noting that Sanders earned the groups support because of his positions on trade, minimum wage and expanding Social Security and Medicare."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/10/politics/bernie-sanders-nurses-endorsement-2016/
I have no doubt, that their homework in regards to health care is extensive.
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When USA Today starts echoing Bernies talking point, I think we're definitely making
huge progress.
It's been a great day for Bernie. My bed beckons. Good night & best to you, my DU friend 
Have a good night, my DU friend.
k&r for the op uncle joe
And more than two-thirds of respondents said Medicare needs to undergo at least some changes, however slight, to keep it financially stable in the future. A whopping 87 percent of respondents favored giving the federal government power to negotiate prescription drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, which President Barack Obama has proposed in his most recent budget plan.
Medicare and Medicaid, which in 2015 will cost more than $1 trillion in government spending, "are important programs to people," that "are really woven into the fabric of American lives," said Mollyann Brodie, a senior vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, and head of that group's survey team.
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However, Brodie noted that with regard to Medicare—the second most-popular government program after Social Security—"There is worry among younger Americans about whether it's going to be there for them" when they get old.
She also said that unlike the Affordable Care Act, which remains unpopular among Republicans, "We see much more across-the-board bipartisan support and agreement about these programs."
"Many more Americans feel that these programs are personally impacting their lives than are saying the same about Obamacare," Brodie said.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/16/medicare-medicaid-popularity-high-ahead-of-birthday.html
Obamacare is not "extremely popular"
Public opinion
Public opinion polls indicate that the United States public generally supports healthcare reform, but the public's views became increasingly negative in reaction to specific plans discussed during the legislative debate over 2009 and 2010. Polling statistics for the general population show a general negative opinion of the law in the first years; with those in favor at approximately 40% and those against at 51%, as of October 2013.[351][352] About 29% of whites approve of the law, compared with 61% of Hispanics and 91% of African Americans, according a Pew Research Center and USA Today survey conducted on 4–8 September 2013.[353] USA Today found opinions were strongly divided by age of the person at the law's inception, with a solid majority of seniors opposing the bill and a solid majority of those younger than forty years old in favor.[354]
Specific elements are very popular across the political spectrum, with the notable exception of the mandate to purchase insurance. FiveThirtyEight, describing public opinion of the law, said, "while surveys have consistently found that a plurality of Americans have an overall negative view of the Affordable Care Act, they have just as consistently shown that large majorities of Americans favor individual elements of the law."[355][356] For example, a Reuters-Ipsos poll during June 2012 indicated that 44% of Americans supported the law, with 56% against. By party affiliation, 75% of Democrats, 27% of Independents, and 14% of Republicans favored the law overall. Individual provisions of the law received varying levels of support: 82% favored banning insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, 61% favored allowing children to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26, 72% supported requiring companies with more than 50 employees to provide insurance for their employees, and 39% supported the individual mandate to own insurance or pay a penalty. By party affiliation, 19% of Republicans, 27% of Independents, and 59% of Democrats favored the mandate.[357] Other polls showed additional provisions receiving majority support include the creation of insurance exchanges, pooling small businesses and the uninsured with other consumers so that more people can take advantage of large group pricing benefits, and providing subsidies to individuals and families to make health insurance more affordable.[358][359] Other specific ideas that were not enacted but which showed majority support included importing prescription drugs from Canada (with its lower, government-controlled prices),[360] limiting malpractice awards, reducing the age to qualify for Medicare, and the Public health insurance option.[361]
Pollsters probed the reasons for opposition.[362] In a CNN poll, 62% of respondents said they thought the ACA would "increase the amount of money they personally spend on health care", 56% said the bill "gives the government too much involvement in health care", and 19% said they thought they and their families would be better off with the legislation.[363] Other polls found that people were concerned that the law would cost more than projected, and would not do enough to control the cost of health care affecting their families.[364]
However, part of the opposition to the law is because some Americans believe the reform did not go far enough: A Reuters-Ipsos poll indicated that, for those opposed to the bill, 71% of Republican opponents reject it overall while 29% believed it did not go far enough; independent opponents were divided 67% to 33%; and among the relatively much smaller group of Democratic opponents, 49% reject it overall, and 51% wanted the measure to go further.[357]
As of 2011 many Democrats believed that the ACA would grow more popular over time, like Medicare did after its implementation,[365] as the benefits of the law take effect and close the information gap about the contents of the bill.[355][356][366]
In June 2013, a majority of the public (52–34%) indicated a desire for "Congress to implement or tinker with the law rather than repeal it".[367] Following the Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of the individual mandate in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, a poll released in July 2012 showed that "most Americans (56%) want to see critics of President Obama's health care law drop efforts to block it and move on to other national issues."[368] The RAND Health Reform Opinion Study for May 1, 2014, showed that 48.9% of respondents had an unfavorable view of the ACA vs. 38.3% who had a favorable view (of more than 5,500 individuals).[369]
Polling averages from RealClearPolitics showed public approval of the ACA as 52.1% against and 38.6% for (poll averages from February 27 to March 25, 2014).[351]
An Associated Press-GfK poll released March 28, 2014 showed that 26% of Americans support the ACA.[370]
A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll released April 30, 2014, indicated that 8% of respondents say that the Affordable Care Act "is working well the way it is."[371]
By the end of 2014, a Rasmussen 3-option poll showed Repeal: 30%, Leave as is: 13%, Improve: 52%, i.e., 65% wanted to leave the ACA alone or improve upon it.[372]
In June 2015, a CBS News/New York Times poll showed that 47% of Americans approved the health care law. This was the first time that a major poll indicated that the number of Americans who approved the ACA is bigger than the ones who disapprove it, though by a small margin.[373]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act
While I do believe Obamacare has some great features about it, the policy also some major shortcomings, institutionalizing the for profit health insurance industry being just one. Their profits having nothing to do with actual health care, that system is dysfunctional.
Not being able to negotiate lower drug prices being another.
You'll always find the uninformed in and out of heath care, but what you will also find in healthcare are the persons who have provided under their own license the kind of care found everywhere from the doctor's office to the ICU and emergency room.
We understand what happens to patients in that revolving door, who profits the most from insufficient revolving doors, and why it costs the consumer so much.
The patients have to be their own best advocate for staying healthy because the model initially known as "health maintenance" never maintained health, but earned profits for private insurers, based on manipulated outcomes that just drove up the expense.
The giant insurance companies that earned a low profit margin in insuring homes and property, damned well made it up in spades based on the portion of health care insurance under that big umbrella. Again, they save, because the claims for care are controlled. The patient can't do a damned thing about that.
The giant pharmaceutical companies lobbied their way around competition and lower drug costs to consumers by controlling what was introduced on the market to "maintain health" and reducing drugs that come off patent to be produced generically.
Giant health care systems who by up physician practices and become self insured have managed to control who gets treated and who reimburses services to achieve profit margins, while lobbying each state to classify their health care system as "non-profit". They don't pay property taxes or for the police and fire and public works surrounding their giant campus, but they control giant health care markets.
We're getting fucked over pretty much every day by this nonsense.
SINGLE PAYER/Medicare for All is the answer to this nonsense. True health maintenance is a reachable goal because there will be millions and millions of workers who are covered as a right, not out of desperation to get any lousy job just for "health care".
Strongly coinciding with this reality under Bernie Sanders are sustainable industries, fair trade and labor negotiations to sustain REAL jobs. This invigorates and stimulates middle class growth.
Next? 
