Reply #67: July Poll, support for a National Insurance Plan grows - Medicare for All

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while support for a public option drops. This is one of the few polls that asks about a SP national insurance system and a public option...we'll see what the August poll shows.

Public option, April, June, July

67,67,59

National insurance plan for all Americans, such as expanded Medicare

48,47,58

Links in the thread below...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6297969&mesg_id=6297969


Of course SP has been marginalized and excluded by the Democrats and they have pushed the compromise plan of a public option.

Americans Support Single payer. Why Doesn't Celinda Lake?

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/december/americans_support_si.php

"...Similar strong support for Medicare for All was found the last time health reform was on the top of the nation’s agenda, during the Clinton administration. In 1993, a citizen jury sat for 8 hours a day for five days in Washington, DC before making their choice among the then-leading options for health reform: managed competition (supported by Clinton), medical savings accounts, and single payer. Single payer received 17 out of 24 votes (70 percent). There were 5 votes for Clinton’s plan, and none for medical savings accounts. Focus groups conducted that year by Democratic pollster Celinda Lake reported the same strong support for single payer. “After conducting extensive focus groups on health care, pollster Celinda Lake discovered that the more people are told about the Canadian system, “the higher the support goes.” In contrast, according to Lake, working Americans found the managed competition idea “laughable.” (“It’s Time for a Real Debate on National Health Insurance”)

So, how come Democratic pollster Celinda Lake now claims Americans won’t support single payer, and instead favor a plan that is a variant of managed competition? Because her latest research was brazenly biased. Kip Sullivan explains how and why..."



Uniquely American Solution - What is it ? Why is it being pushed?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6289091&mesg_id=6289091