A pair of new surveys confirm that the Medicare for All rallying cry is both broadly popular and widely misunderstood
Medicare for All is in the eye of the beholder. Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call Voters believe that Medicare for All would raise their taxes without eliminating their premiums, co-pays, or deductibles. And most voters think that sounds great.
This isn’t the first Kaiser poll to produce such a result . And Navigator Research affirms Kaiser’s findings. In Navigator’s survey, 60 percent of voters said that Medicare for All was best described as “a health care plan that lets anyone buy Medicare instead of their current private insurance, if they want to.”
Chart: Navigator This result is likely a product of the GOP’s messaging on health care, which has taken pains to emphasize that Medicare for All is not “Medicare for anyone who wants it.” And it isn’t hard to see why Republicans have been so eager to emphasize that point. In both Kaiser and Navigator’s polling, Medicare for All is much more popular when it is defined as a public option:
Americans support making coverage universal. But for the large majority who already have some form of insurance, this does not seem to rank as a high priority. The reason why health care is now a perennial top issue for American voters is that the costs of maintaining coverage and utilizing care are rising every year.
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