Single Payer isn't the Policy of the Far Left, it's the Policy of the Majority

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Majority in U.S. Support Idea of Fed-Funded Healthcare System
Frank Newport
Gallup

58% favor replacing the ACA with federally funded healthcare system

Presented with three separate scenarios for the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 58% of U.S. adults favor the idea of replacing the law with a federally funded healthcare system that provides insurance for all Americans. At the same time, Americans are split on the idea of maintaining the ACA as it is, with 48% in favor and 49% opposed. The slight majority, 51%, favor repealing the act.

Gallup included these three questions in its interviewing on May 6-8 to provide insight into how Americans might react to the three remaining presidential candidates' proposals for dealing with the ACA. Bernie Sanders calls for replacing the ACA with a single-payer, federally administered system that he calls "Medicare for All." Donald Trump has said he would repeal the ACA, and Hillary Clinton generally says she would keep the ACA in place. Americans were asked in the survey to react to each of these proposals separately, and there was no mention of the candidates in the question wording.

Yes, we should defend the ACA tooth and nail because the Republican Party wants to replace it with nothing. But, Single Payer advocates aren't the enemy- they're the majority.

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1. In Germany where the government pays for all healthcare,

you don't see far right extremists demanding a free market approach. They like the system as it exists.

In this country, the far right doesn't know what to think when their leaders want to take away their healthcare for their own good and for the sake of capitalism.