- A new poll found 59% of Americans support a "national Medicare-for-all plan."
- The plan is similar to a proposal made by Sen. Bernie Sanders during the 2016 presidential campaign.
- Support for the idea is split along party lines, with only 36% of Republicans in favor.
A new poll found that a majority of Americans support a radical change to the US healthcare system
59% of Americans support a Medicare-for-all system similar to the one proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and other liberal Democrats.
The healthcare system supported by Bernie Sanders and many liberal-leaning Democrats has begun gaining steam with more Americans, according to a new poll.
The poll, from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health policy think tank, found that:
There is, as expected, a partisan split in the polling on Medicare-for-all:
While the Medicare-for-all option is still a difficult sell for lawmakers, 16 Democrats signed on to Sanders' bill to implement such a program in the US back in September. Additionally, many business leaders and politicians have been floating the idea for a single-payer system, which would see the government fund a vast majority of medical coverage.
Despite the findings, Kaiser said it is not conclusive whether the same percentage of people would support a concrete piece of legislation.
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