The 2020 presidential election may be shaping up to be another election cycle focused on health care, with Democratic candidates offering competing proposals aimed at expanding coverage and controlling costs and a pending legal battle over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. The latest KFF tracking poll takes a […] Read more »
Black Democrats prefer the public option to ‘Medicare for All’
A new Marist College poll finds that 90% of Democrats believe it is a good idea to have a health care system in which there are private insurers and a government option (i.e. public option). Meanwhile, a smaller 64% of Democrats say it’s a good idea to have “Medicare for […] Read more »
Democrats differ over best way to provide health coverage for all Americans
As the next round of the Democratic presidential debates approaches, Democrats are largely united in the belief that the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. However, they are internally divided over how this should be achieved. CONT. Amina Dunn, Pew Read more »
2020 could be another ‘lesser of two evils’ election
Last weekend, I wrote about President Donald Trump’s recipe to win a second term in office. He, of course, has had an approval rating well below 50% throughout his first term. Therefore, Trump has to hope the Democratic nominee ends up being unpopular. This in turn would allow the 2020 […] Read more »
Americans Not Sold On Trump — Or Democrats
Democratic presidential candidates are proposing lots of progressive policies in this election. And while those policies may resonate with the party base, some of those ideas are not popular with a general election electorate, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. And overall, independent voters said they were not impressed […] Read more »
Health care: Democrats say focus should be on costs
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 […] Read more »