A new poll found that a majority of Americans support a radical change to the US healthcare system

[applegrove]

Bob Bryan at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-medicare-for-all-public-option-bernie-sanders-plan-support-2018-3

"SNIP.......

The healthcare system supported by Bernie Sanders and many liberal-leaning Democrats has begun gaining steam with more Americans, according to a new poll.

The poll, from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health policy think tank, found that:

59% of respondents supported a Medicare-for-all healthcare system in which all Americans would get coverage through a government program like Medicare or Medicaid.

Moving to a public-option model, under which people could sign up for the Medicare-like program, would be even more popular.

About 75% of the public would favor a program framed as a public option for anyone who wants it.

.......SNIP"

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. This was thought up LONG before the current group.

[applegrove]

2. Well support is holding steady then.

[Docreed2003]

4. Pfft...

Pretty sure Bernie thought this up all on his own...

[lapucelle]

5. HR 676 (The Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act) was first introduced in 2003

by Democrat John Conyers and has been re-introduced in almost every session of Congress since, including in January 2017. This fully funded legislation is considered by the advocacy groups Medicare For All and Physicians for a National Health Program to be the gold standard. Medicareforall.org has been lobbying senators for years to write, introduce, and support a Senate version of the House bill.



http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/HR676

http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/S1804

http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/HR676_and_S915

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Correct and long before that Hillary had the right idea.

[BigmanPigman]

3. This is what the Dems should run with as a unified message for the midterms.

They need to run according to their specific districts but this issue is the one that they can run on successfully. Gun control, DACA, tax cuts and impeachment are too touchy right now. They need to stay away from abortion and if anything they can run on the moral (or lack of) issues of the W House and his team.

[Poiuyt]

8. I agree. And they should emphasize the economic benefits of single payer

Figures show that the U.S. would save hundreds of billions of dollars a year. What's not to like?

[dlk]

7. Our For-Profit Healthcare System is a Mess!