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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Mon Oct 22, 2018, 07:01 PM Oct 2018

Majority of Republicans supports 'Medicare for all,' poll finds

Source: The Hill

10/22/2018

More than half of Republicans in a new American Barometer poll say they support "Medicare for all," also known as a single-payer health-care system.

The survey, conducted by Hill.TV and the HarrisX polling company, found that 52 percent of Republicans polled said they supported the option, while 48 percent said they opposed it.

Twenty-five percent said they "strongly" supported "Medicare for all," while 27 percent said they "somewhat" supported it.

Twenty-two percent said they "somewhat" opposed the idea, while 26 percent said they "strongly" opposed it.

Read more: https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/412552-majority-of-republicans-say-the-support-medicare-for-all-poll

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Majority of Republicans supports 'Medicare for all,' poll finds (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2018 OP
As always, the wording of the question affects the result fountainofyouth Oct 2018 #1
Medicare for them, everyone else to the concentration camps I'm sure ck4829 Oct 2018 #2
Then why in the hell are they Republicans? They should know that their party totodeinhere Oct 2018 #3
It's because they didn't say "Obamacare" FakeNoose Oct 2018 #4
The ACA is not single payer though, and is definitely not "Medicare for all" Polybius Oct 2018 #7
Right but that wasn't my point FakeNoose Oct 2018 #9
Sure, just as long as Turbineguy Oct 2018 #5
What the people want MurrayDelph Oct 2018 #6
Meaningless without any idea of what the premiums will be MichMan Oct 2018 #8

fountainofyouth

(409 posts)
1. As always, the wording of the question affects the result
Mon Oct 22, 2018, 07:20 PM
Oct 2018

An average respondent could very easily interpret the question -- "Would you support or oppose providing Medicare to every American?" -- as implying everyone over 65.

A poll asking "Do you support making Medicare available to Americans of all ages?" or "Do you support expanding Medicare eligibility to include people younger than 65?" will get different results than the above.

totodeinhere

(13,058 posts)
3. Then why in the hell are they Republicans? They should know that their party
Mon Oct 22, 2018, 08:01 PM
Oct 2018

will never pass this and if the Democrats try to pass it they will fight it tooth and nail.

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
4. It's because they didn't say "Obamacare"
Mon Oct 22, 2018, 08:23 PM
Oct 2018

Medicare for all = Single payer healthcare = Obamacare = ACA

The Repugs are TOO STUPID to figure this out. But heck yeah, they want Medicare for all!
They just don't want Obamacare.

Polybius

(15,423 posts)
7. The ACA is not single payer though, and is definitely not "Medicare for all"
Mon Oct 22, 2018, 09:36 PM
Oct 2018

As much as I like the ACA, and as much of an improvement it was over nothing, Medicare for all would be a far greater plan to have.

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
9. Right but that wasn't my point
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:46 AM
Oct 2018

When it's called "Obamacare" the right-wingers hate it before they even know what it really is.
That's been the GOP plan from the beginning.

Very few of the base can even tell the difference between all these plans.
I guess "Medicare for All" sounds like it's for white people, but I don't get it.

But the good news is that the door has opened maybe just enough to get a real national healthcare plan passed. It needs to be a bipartisan effort which is what the ACA should have been all along.

MurrayDelph

(5,299 posts)
6. What the people want
Mon Oct 22, 2018, 08:55 PM
Oct 2018

has nothing to do with what the Republicans will do.

Most Republicans also believe in common-sense gun laws, and we've seen how much that view has been represented.

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