Current and Historical Public Opinion on Medicare-for-All and Other National Health Plan Proposals | KFF
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This chart pack summarizes KFF polling data on public opinion on Medicare-for-all and other national health plan proposals. The latest update finds that two-thirds of the public supports Medicare-for-all, while support changes drastically as respondents hear arguments from proponents and critics.

From 2017 to 2020, views of Medicare-for-all were relatively stable, with at least half of adults consistently favoring the proposal and between four in ten and just under half opposing it. Opposition rose slightly in 2019, coinciding with debate over Medicare-for-all during the Democratic presidential primary, and when KFF asked the question in October 2020, about half (53%) were in favor and about four in ten (42%) opposed.

The latest KFF poll from September 2026 marks a new high, with two-thirds (66%) of the public favoring the proposal, while the share opposed has fallen to about a third (34%).

  • Taldan@lemmy.world
    3·
    18 days ago

    Medicare-for-all would probably be a good thing for the US healthcare system, but it might be too late to save it from collapse

    Hospitals are going bankrupt at an incredible rate during a time when medical debt is the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy in the US

    Providers are being asked to treat more patients per shift, giving them less time for each patient, yet costs have reached record highs and still climbing for the patient

    We have the least efficient healthcare system in human history, it’s not even close. Combine that with the fact a small number of people take up a disproportionate amount of resources, and we get to part of why healthcare is unaffordable for most Americans

    My local hospital has a frequent flyer who calls 911 for an ambulance to the hospital every day, then gets an ambulance home at the end of the day (because he wouldn’t leave otherwise). He has had well over 1,000 ambulance rides

    He has never once had an issue that needed anbulance treatment. All medical complaints turned out to be a false alarm

    He’s probably cost the hospital, a non-profit, over 1 million dollars. He may have caused the death(s) or serious injury of others because he’s frequently tying up the last available ambulance

    Now contrast that with one of the paramedics that take him to the hospital - that medic got a serious head injury last year. Someone who witnessed it called him an ambulance. The medic ran away because he could not afford an ambulance ride

    We live in a society where healthcare providers cannot afford healthcare

    All this to say American healthcare is so inefficient, I don’t think it will be sustainable unless we get rid of private insurance or at a minimum deeply reform it