Health Affairs December 3, 2018
Health care was the most important issue for voters in the 2018 Congressional elections, in which Democrats won a significant majority in the US House of Representatives. A major health care proposal supported by many Democrats is “Medicare for All”, which would create a publicly-financed, single-payer health insurance system for all Americans.
Many observers dismiss single-payer health care as a political non-starter , but this traditional view ignores an explosion of support for the idea in recent years. In one recent poll, over 70 percent of Americans said they would support “a policy of Medicare for All”, including 85 percent of Democrats and even 52 percent of Republicans. A subsequent poll asked “do you support providing Medicare for every American”...
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