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(32,640 posts)Universal Health Care Coverage is the goal.
Defunding Planned Parenthood wins big in GOP primaries. That doesn't mean that it's based in good health policy analysis.
https://www.urban.org/research/publication/sanders-single-payer-health-care-plan-effect-national-health-expenditures-and-federal-and-private-spending
It just means that it's a great slogan that gets people enthused, when they don't really understand health policy, which is complicated. It's good political marketing.
And "Medicare for All" as per Sanders isn't really very much like Medicare, especially in terms of how it's funded, and not what voters are actually supporting.
https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/voters-who-like-medicare-for-all-may-not-like-single-payer.html