With the 2016 elections just 10 weeks away, voters give Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton a substantial advantage over Republican nominee Donald Trump on a wide array of health care issues, the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds. … In spite of Clinton’s edge with voters on these issues, most […] Read more »
On Health Care Issues, Voters Give Clinton a Substantial Edge Over Trump
While the public tilts narrowly toward unfavorable views of the Affordable Care Act, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton holds a clear advantage on health care issues over presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump as the 2016 national political conventions approach, and voters generally, including independents, favor Democrats on health issues, the […] Read more »
AP-GfK Poll: Support shaky for Sanders ‘Medicare for all’
At first blush, many Americans like the idea of “Medicare for all,” the government-run health system that’s a rallying cry for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. But mention some of the trade-offs — from higher taxes to giving up employer coverage — and support starts to shrivel. CONT. Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar […] Read more »
Voters Demand Government & Political Reform
A major new study conducted by Democracy Corps and Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund demonstrates the strength of a new progressive narrative leading into the 2016 Election Year. This narrative puts a middle class agenda at the center of the economic debate, but it begins with an embrace of […] Read more »
Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Medicare for All
A skirmish broke out recently between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders about the merits of single-payer health care, an idea that Mr. Sanders has long advocated. The candidates jousted about the financing of single-payer health care during the Democratic debate Saturday night. The differences between the two candidates on single-payer […] Read more »
More of the public views ACA unfavorably than favorably; 58% favor the idea of Medicare-for-all
… The race for the Democratic presidential nomination has recently included debate about creating a national health plan in which all Americans would get their insurance through an expanded form of Medicare generally called Medicare-for-all. Majorities of Democrats (81 percent) and independents (60 percent) favor the idea of Medicare-for-all compared […] Read more »