Majority Support Single-Payer Health Insurance

Posted by | January 21, 2015 07:00 | Filed under: Mark Quincy Adams Politics Top Stories

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To the frustration of many, particularly on the Left, Obamacare did not include a single payer option. In order to get past GOP obstruction, that had to be removed from the final bill. Since healthcare reform has been implemented, polls over the years have shown significant dissatisfaction with the ACA. While most pundits attribute that to people thinking the law went too far, research shows the opposite is true. Most people want the law to go farther. Much farther.

More than five years after the single-payer system was scrapped from ObamaCare policy debates, just over 50 percent of people say they still support the idea, including one-quarter of Republicans, according to a new poll. The single-payer option – also known as Medicare for all – would create a new, government-run insurance program to replace private coverage. The system, once backed by President Obama, became one of the biggest casualties of the divisive healthcare debates of 2009. The idea remains extremely popular among Democrats, with nearly 80 percent in support, according to the poll, which was shared first with The Hill by the Progressive Change Institute. “There is a hunger in America for big progressive ideas,” spokesperson TJ Helmstetter wrote in a statement. “The state of our union is progressive, and the president would be smart to give America the big, popular, progressive economic ideas that people have been crying out for.”

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By: Mark Quincy Adams

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8 responses to Majority Support Single-Payer Health Insurance

  1. rg9rts January 21st, 2015 at 08:57

    It doesn’t matter what the majority wants… the gopee is against it

  2. rg9rts January 21st, 2015 at 09:57

    It doesn’t matter what the majority wants… the gopee is against it

  3. mea_mark January 21st, 2015 at 09:03

    If only the majority of Americans would consistently show up to vote. It is hard to get what you want when you don’t vote and the idiots manipulated by big money do.

    • Larry Schmitt January 21st, 2015 at 09:35

      That is really one of the disgraces of this country. So many people talk about their freedoms, their liberty, etc. But they don’t even do the minimum to protect those freedoms. Most Americans still don’t know who their congressmen are. The slightest mention of anything political makes them change the station.

  4. mea_mark January 21st, 2015 at 10:03

    If only the majority of Americans would consistently show up to vote. It is hard to get what you want when you don’t vote and the idiots manipulated by big money do.

    • Larry Schmitt January 21st, 2015 at 10:35

      That is really one of the disgraces of this country. So many people talk about their freedoms, their liberty, etc. But they don’t even do the minimum to protect those freedoms. Most Americans still don’t know who their congressmen are. The slightest mention of anything political makes them change the station.

  5. fahvel January 21st, 2015 at 13:33

    I am in a nice country with single payer and it is absolutely magnificent – it’s a place where doctors are well paid but not there to become rich park avenuers – the service is impeccable, personal and equal to anything the usa has to offer for a bazillion dollars per pill.

  6. fahvel January 21st, 2015 at 14:33

    I am in a nice country with single payer and it is absolutely magnificent – it’s a place where doctors are well paid but not there to become rich park avenuers – the service is impeccable, personal and equal to anything the usa has to offer for a bazillion dollars per pill.

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