Health care remains a dominant — perhaps the dominant — issue in the 2020 Democratic primaries. Nearly nine in 10 Democrats in the early states through Super Tuesday call it “very important,” outranking any other issue we asked about in the latest CBS News Battleground Tracker poll, and the split over what to do about it marks ideological divisions within the party that could shape the contest. …
More than half of Democrats in these states favor the creation of a “Medicare for All”-type health care system and largely support a tax on the wealthy to help fund it. …
There is a general reluctance among Democrats to completely replace private health insurance with a national program. Almost two-thirds think a national health care plan would work best if it competed with private insurance. CONT.
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