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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpreading 'Like Wildfire': Majority of AmericansIncluding 74% of DemocratsNow Support Single-Payer
From the article:
"Five years ago, could you have believed that half of Americans would agree we need a single-payer healthcare system?"
That's how Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)a longtime advocate of guaranteeing healthcare for all Americansresponded to a new poll that found that 74 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of all adults surveyed support implementing a single-payer healthcare system in the United States.
That's how Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)a longtime advocate of guaranteeing healthcare for all Americansresponded to a new poll that found that 74 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of all adults surveyed support implementing a single-payer healthcare system in the United States.
To read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/12/spreading-wildfire-majority-americans-including-74-democrats-now-support-single?
Some will still insist that single payer is unaffordable.
What IS unaffordable is the current profit driven system.
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Spreading 'Like Wildfire': Majority of AmericansIncluding 74% of DemocratsNow Support Single-Payer (Original Post)
guillaumeb
Apr 2018
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OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)1. Not gonna click on commondreams.
Whose poll is this?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)2. The Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll asked:
And the question followed.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)3. Huh?
Do you have a link to the poll?
On edit: Never mind. This is the poll, already posted, which shows a 51% approval.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)4. Single-payer saves money with 2% overhead just like Medicare.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)6. But it interferes with the sacred right to profit on everything.
Most other industrialized countries have already solved this problem.