Support for Medicare for All dips: poll

[highplainsdem]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/455264-support-for-medicare-for-all-dips-poll

A new poll finds that public support for "Medicare for All," a policy championed by several 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, has dipped in recent months.

The Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll found that 51 percent of the public now say they favor Medicare for All, compared to 56 percent in April 2019.

The survey also found a public option to be more popular, with 65 percent in favor of making this available to Americans to compete with private insurance plans.

The new poll also found general public favorability for Medicare at 83 percent, support for employer-sponsored insurance at 76 percent and backing for Medicaid at 75 percent.

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Link to the tracking poll:

https://www.kff.org/health-reform/poll-finding/kff-health-tracking-poll-july-2019/

KFF has been tracking public polling on a national Medicare-for-all plan since the 2016 presidential campaign and this month’s tracking poll finds a slight dip in overall favorability towards Medicare-for-all. About half (51%) of the public say they favor such a proposal compared to 56% who said they were in favor earlier this year and a high of 59% more than a year ago in March 2018.

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Overall, a larger share of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents would prefer lawmakers build on the existing ACA (55%) to expand health care coverage to more Americans rather than replace the ACA with a national Medicare-for-all plan (39%).

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Public Option

Another type of government health plan garnering recent attention is a public option. This type of plan would allow everyone to have access to a public health insurance option like Medicare. Earlier this month, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced his own health care proposal, which builds heavily on the ACA – legislation passed during his term as Vice President in the Obama administration – and one element of which includes a public option. Previous KFF polling conducted in 2009, prior to the passage of the ACA, found about half of the public (47%) said a government-administered public health insurance option that would compete with private plans was an important feature of health reform.

Nearly two-thirds of the public (65%) favor having a government-administered health plan that would compete with private health insurance plans and be available to all Americans while 31% oppose. Views are largely driven by partisanship with majorities of Democrats (85%) and independents (68%) favoring a public option while a majority of Republicans oppose such a proposal (62%).

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See the poll for the graphs accompanying that excerpt.

And I'd recommend reading the complete poll for other findings, especially their polling on the women's issues voters want candidats to talk about, and the very high support for keeping some provisions of the ACA, especially coverage for pre-existing conditions.

[George II]

1. "Medicare for All" is a misnomer - it's won't be "Medicare" it'll be a different system entirely....

Plus, what most people don't realize (and BS won't tell the public) is that people on Medicare - doctors, labs, and medical facilities - don't deal with the government or Social Security Administration at all. They all deal with private insurance companies.

We've been on Medicare for about four years now, and other than contacting them to sign up we've never had to contact them again. We deal with a PRIVATE insurance company, United Health Care! We get monthly and annual statements from them, not SSA.

The Medicare system as we know it would collapse if the private insurance companies were ever put out of business.

[Kahuna7]

5. Exactly. The entire Medicare system would need to be revamped to

be available to all. Seniors especially will not go for tinkering with their Medicare.

[thewhollytoast]

6. Hi my name is Toast and I'm a recovering insurance salesman

George sounds like you signed up for a UHC PFFS. Which means UHC takes every penny of your pooled contribution to medicare and puts it in their pocket whether you get sick or not and thus fucks over the entire Medicare system. UHC is a vampire corporation that is just slightly less evil than Humana. Private insurance companies do not give one shit about your health. They care about profits and nothing else.

Toast

[George II]

7. Sorry, you're wrong.

[thewhollytoast]

8. Please explain.

Medicare Advantage plans scam the Social Security System plain and simple.

Toast

[Skya Rhen]

2. Thanks for this...

[IADEMO2004]

3. Morning Joe on Directv have many anti medicare for all ads

www.onenationamerica.org source on the ads.


Well What Do You Know!! Karl Rove & dark money

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/One_Nation

One Nation is a dark money group run by Karl Rove's top operatives who run Crossroads GPS and American Crossroads.[1] According to the organization's website "One Nation is a 501(c)(4) organization that will utilize paid communications, public opinion research and grassroots-level advocacy to shape attitudes on major issues and mobilize citizens to take action by contacting and interacting with policymakers in Washington."[2]

Steven Law, former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), is the president and CEO of One Nation, the same role he has with McConnell's Senate Leadership Fund as well as Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS and American Crossroads. [3][4] Law told NPR that the Rove groups would focus retaining the U.S. Senate in 2016.[5]

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the dark money group was initially registered with the IRS in 2010 as the Alliance for America's Future by Barry Bennett, one of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign advisors. Rove and his operatives took control of the group in 2015 in order to have a spending group with a pre-packaged 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status.[6] The Guardian reported in August, 2016 that Adelson had given $10 million to the dark money group.[7]

[democratisphere]

4. As long as wall street private Insurance companies are involved

in American healthcare, it is not sustainable. The "I've got mine" private insurance mentality is no excuse for moving forward with a price controlled single payer program. American healthcare in its current form is totally corrupt. Supporting THIS healthcare continues to enable the abuse and corruption.

[crazytown]

9. A poll commissioned by Kaiser must be taken with a handful of salt.

No doubt the conclusion are correct, but the numbers require more independent polling.