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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 08:43 PM Apr 2018

Spreading '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 Americans—responded 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 OP
Not gonna click on commondreams. OilemFirchen Apr 2018 #1
The Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll asked: guillaumeb Apr 2018 #2
Huh? OilemFirchen Apr 2018 #3
Single-payer saves money with 2% overhead just like Medicare. AtomicKitten Apr 2018 #4
But it interferes with the sacred right to profit on everything. guillaumeb Apr 2018 #6
Single-payer area51 Apr 2018 #5

OilemFirchen

(7,143 posts)
3. Huh?
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 08:56 PM
Apr 2018

Do you have a link to the poll?

On edit: Never mind. This is the poll, already posted, which shows a 51% approval.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
6. But it interferes with the sacred right to profit on everything.
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 05:56 PM
Apr 2018

Most other industrialized countries have already solved this problem.

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