Public Wants Universal Health Care For This Country

Yesterday, I brought you a Monmouth University Poll that showed Americans don't like socialism (likely because they don't understand it). The charts above are from that same poll (done between April 11th and 15th of a national sample of 801 adults, with a 3.5 point margin of error).

Democrats have been pushing universal health care. Some want a single-payer system (like Medicare-For-All), while others want to improve Obamacare and add a public option -- but all want to cover all citizens with health insurance and lower the cost of medical care and drugs.

Trump and the Republicans have been labeling all the Democratic plans as "socialism". Considering what the people in this poll thought of socialism, one might think that would be the death knell for universal health care -- but it isn't. A significant majority of the public wants universal health care, and they are buying the GOP claims of socialism.

Note the charts above, about 58% say they would favor a universal health care plan, while only 37% would oppose it. And about 57% say it is not socialism, while that same 37% claim it is. The fact is that Americans want our health care system fixed. They want all Americans to get decent health care at a price they can afford -- and calling it socialism doesn't deter them from that view.

I think that's great. I don't care what those people call universal health care, as long as a viable version of it is instituted -- and evidently, most Americans agree.