Good bye Bernie Sanders
Good Bye Medicare for All
Good riddance to both.
You feeling particularly dense today?
Bernie's leaving the race now
increases the chances of Medicare for All (or some other form of universal healthcare), not reduces it.
And even if it changed nothing of the likelihood, the topic is not going away - not with the huge gaps that COVID-19 has exposed (which were already obvious to most of us).
The
fact that your side of the country continues to lie about the numbers dead, claiming them to be inflated, the
fact that Republicans, particularly Republican men are less likely to be practicing social distancing, may make them less likely to acknowledge the need, but Republican men are a only about 13-14% of voters.
You are in the minority - a group that is shrinking before our eyes. You will be better served as a minority group than any before you in the history of this country.
This is from
January, before we saw just how much of a problem this disease was going to be. They haven't run the numbers again, yet, but do you seriously believe that the percentage in favor of Medicare for All is going to
drop?!
the latest KFF tracking poll finds that a majority of Americans favor a national Medicare-for-all health plan (56%) but a larger share favors a government-administered “public option” (68%). Notably, nearly half of adults (48%) favor both of these proposals. Among the 17% who favor a public option but oppose Medicare-for-all, when asked to explain their reasoning in their own words, the most common responses indicate that they prefer a public option because it allows choice (32% of those who were asked, or 5% of the total public).
Eight in ten Americans think taxes for most people would increase both under a Medicare-for-all plan (83%) or a public option health plan available to all (81%). However, more adults think that all Americans would have health insurance coverage under a Medicare-for-all system (62%) than under a public option (53%).
https://www.kff.org/health-reform/poll-finding/kff-health-tracking-poll-january-2020/
Poll
5 (45.5%)