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  • 2017-09-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Do The ‘Majority’ Of Americans Find Single-Payer Health Care ‘A Horrible Idea’? (en)
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  • White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that the majority of the country believes that the single-payer system that the Democrats are proposing is a horrible idea during a Wednesday press briefing. I can’t think of anything worse than having government be more involved in your health care instead of less involved, she continued. Sanders was criticizing the Medicare-For-All single-payer health care bill that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled the same day. Verdict: False A review of numerous public opinion polls does not suggest the majority of Americans find single-payer health care a horrible idea. Most polls conversely indicate greater support than opposition to single-payer health care. Fact Check: Opinion polls have indicated fluctuating levels of public support for single-payer health care. A Gallup poll released back in May 2016 estimated that a majority of Americans actually support single-payer. Nearly 60 percent of the poll’s respondents said they favor replacing Obamacare with a federally funded health care program providing insurance for all Americans, or single-payer. Only 37 percent opposed the idea, and five percent had no opinion. The first public poll The Daily Caller News Foundation could identify from 2017 was an AP-NORC Center opinion poll conducted between Jan. 12 and Jan. 16. Thirty-eight percent of poll respondents favored a single payer health care system while 39 percent opposed. Single-payer favorability decreased to just 24 percent when the poll question was adjusted to make note that single-payer involves large increases in government spending. A Rasmussen Reports poll released May 10 reported a plurality of respondents – 44 percent – favored single-payer health care while 40 percent opposed. Sixteen percent of respondents had no opinion. A Pew Research Center poll released a month later on June 23 reported that only 33 percent of respondents supported a single national government program, or single-payer health care. A 60 percent majority of the June Pew poll’s respondents, however, supported the broader notion that government is responsible for achieving universal health care for all Americans. A quarter of respondents preferred a mix of public and private health plans over single-payer to achieve universal health care. A YouGov/Economist poll conducted between June 25 and June 27 asked respondents if they favor single-payer health care, making note that such a system would be financed by taxes. A 44 percent plurality of respondents favored taxpayer-funded single-payer health care. Less than a third of respondents opposed. A poll released next month on July 5 by the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent health care think tank, had asked respondents if they favor or oppose a single government plan for all Americans. A 53 percent majority of respondents favored single-payer while 43 percent opposed it. (The Kaiser poll from June also revealed that support fluctuated based on how a single-payer plan is marketed. A stronger 57 percent majority of respondents, for instance, favored single-payer health care when asked about the specific Medicare-For-All plan introduced by Congressional Democrats.) The most recent poll TheDCNF found was a Quinnipiac University poll released Aug. 3. The poll asked respondents if they approved of replacing the current health care system with a single-payer system in which Medicare covers every American citizen. The poll’s results estimated that a slight majority of 51 percent of Americans favor a single-payer system. Only 38 percent of respondents opposed it. It is not clear, however, that a majority of Americans are in favor switching to a single-payer health care system. These polls, spread over more than a year, utilized different methods of gauging popular support for single-payer health care. A September 2016 Gallup poll reported that a 65 percent majority of respondents feel satisfied with the current health care system, casting some doubt on the notion that Americans yearn for radical single-payer reform. Nevertheless, six out of seven polls TheDCNF examined indicated more support for single-payer over other health care policy alternatives. These polls moreover indicate a secular growth trend for single-payer support – all of the polls that TheDCNF examined that had been repeated in previous years indicated that year after year, popular support for single-payer has usually increased. Sanders’ claim that the majority of Americans side with Trump in the belief that single-payer health care is a horrible idea is false. Polls suggest more Americans support the idea than oppose it. Follow Kush on Twitter Send tips to [email protected] All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact [email protected] . (en)
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