An astonishing change in how Americans think about government run healthcare

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For the past few years, pollsters have asked about a thousand or so Americans the same question: Does the government have an obligation to ensure all Americans have health care? They've found a remarkable shift, with Americans swinging sharply toward the belief that the government ought to play a very large role in the health care system. Specifically, the percentage of Americans who think the government has an obligation to ensure coverage to all citizens has risen from 42 percent in 2013 to 60 percent in 2017.

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"People have not fallen in love with the ACA," Blendon says. "What they fell in love with was the idea that the federal government can't drop 30 million people from coverage all at once, that there was a responsibility for universal coverage." His article also finds that government health programs, like Medicaid, generally poll better than the expansion of private coverage through insurance subsidies.

It's not just the fact that millions of Americans now rely on the law and its programs for coverage. And it's not the rise in Obamacare's popularity, which has been relatively meager.

It's also a fundamental shift in attitudes that has happened after the Affordable Care Act passed, where Americans became more accepting of a larger role for the government in health care. For all the attacks on the health law as a "government takeover" of health care, this polling suggests voters are kind of okay with that.

Interesting.

 

[BB4evah]

VOX is not credible

 

[jaF0]

I would rather the Government had not gotten into that specific situation. I would rather they had taken on BigMedCo and done some sort of regulation of costs that would have been more fair to both sides, providers and patients.

THAT would have allowed insurance companies to offer rates and programs more people could afford.

 

[Hypoxia]

My partner's sister was systems and then division head of one of the major health-life-etc insurers. She, who did *very* well financially, admits commercial health insurance is a money-sucking scam. Pre-ACA, a fifth of healthcare dollars went to executives (like her) and shareholders (mostly corporate).

RomneyObamaCare, the GOP answer to Hillary's single-payer, is skewed to benefit Big Pharma, insurers, all the corporate players in the healthcare game. All the leeches. A federal medicare-for-all system, with private providers and supplemental plans, is IMHO the most equable solution... for everyone except the leeches, poor babies.

 

[jaF0]

Yeah. I know that.

But NewsFlash, so is your electric bill, water bill, gas bill, mortgage, etc.