Fascinating: majority of Republicans support "Medicare for all"

[ataraxia]

Fascinating. This poll is from 2018, but I just saw it.

"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. "

Majority of Republicans supports ‘Medicare for all,’ poll finds

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 H…

thehill.com

Wow! That's really interesting. That means that the majority of Republicans are for what Reagan called "socialism" back in the 1960s. Despite all their bluster, then really do seem to be moving left as a group, at least on this issue.

It's now not even "Stop socialized medicine and keep your government hands off my Medicare". They are now even afraid of losing their Obamacare:



Maybe the way to understand all this is that anything that helps those "others" is socialism- but anything that helps them is not. That's the only way I can make any sense of it.

 

[highroller]

But Republican elites do not and that is all that matters in this country

 

[aociswundumho]

Wow! That's really interesting. That means that the majority of Republicans are for what Reagan called "socialism" back in the 1960s. Despite all their bluster, then really do seem to be moving left as a group, at least on this issue.

It doesn't matter what anybody wants.

1. At 12k per person per year, it would take about 4 trillion dollars per year to provide everyone in the US with healthcare. The federal government brings in about 3.5 trillion per year in revenue. That means we would have to spend every dime on healthcare and still run a 500 billion dollar deficit.

2. You say you want price controls. Good luck. The progressive regulatory state has made the labor cartels and special interest groups which infest the healthcare industry extremely politically powerful.

3. Even if by some miracle you get price controls, you would then have to deal with the extremely bad consequences caused by price controls.

The left has made healthcare reform politically impossible, so enjoy your progressive healthcare system, because it's not going to be changing anytime soon.