Opinion: There’s widespread support for overhauling health care in a more progressive direction
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 26 at 4:14 PM As you’ve heard, the Trump administration has, in an act of supreme venality and bad faith, decided to fully embrace a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the Affordable Care Act based on a bonkers legal theory that has been dismissed by legal observers across the ideological spectrum.
Do you think that keeping the current health care system but allowing all adults the option of buying into Medicare is a good idea or a bad idea? The poll also finds that the public is not as supportive of replacing the current health-care system with a single-payer one, or Medicare-for-all. Americans are almost exactly split on that question, 43 percent to 45 percent.
But since then, the ferment in Democratic politics has raised questions as to whether that will hold going into 2020. With emboldened progressive House members pushing policies like a Green New Deal and Medicare-for-all, the speculation among some political observers has been that this could alienate some of the more affluent suburban whites, who, it was said, gravitated to Democrats largely out of disgust with Trump personally and might not be too comfortable with overly progressive policies.
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