Poll Shows Majority Support for Medicare-for-All as 2020 Revs Up
- The issue has become a litmus test for Democratic contenders
- Many party hopefuls have endorsed national health-care system
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A majority of Americans support a national “Medicare-for-all” system, according to a new survey by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation released as Democratic presidential candidates jump into the 2020 primary field.
Fifty-six percent of Americans said they favor “a national health plan,” sometimes called Medicare-for-all, in which all U.S. citizens would get their insurance from a single government plan, while 42 percent oppose the idea, the poll found.