Summary
A Gallup poll shows 62% of Americans believe the government should ensure universal healthcare coverage—the highest support in over a decade.
While Democratic backing remains strong at 90%, support among Republicans and Independents has also grown since 2020.
Public frustration with the for-profit healthcare system has intensified following the arrest of a suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, reportedly motivated by anger at the industry.
Recent controversies, including Anthem’s rollback of anesthesia coverage cuts, and debates over Medicare privatization highlight ongoing dissatisfaction with the system.
I tried to explain to a luddite like 10 years ago that their healthcare costs would go down. He said he doesn’t care, he doesn’t want to pay for someone else’s healthcare. He had insurance through work. I tried explaining to him that THAT’S the whole point of insurance, you pay for other people’s healthcare, you’re not just paying into an account that you then draw from. Your premium goes to someone else’s cancer treatment. He said I didn’t understand insurance. Dude had 3 kids too. So his healthcare costs proportionally to mine would have been waaayyy lower.
Like, it’s a no brainer.
He said I didn’t understand insurance.
Reminds me of fiscal conservatives that would always lecture people on economics, while not having even the slightest understanding of how it works.
Too late with the Orange Man in the White House…
Free healthcare for all!
Until the USA can cap healthcare costs, shit ain’t gonna happen. Every single legal resident in the USA should have the same healthcare as the politicians.
Sounds like 62% of Americans should have voted for the candidate that might have actually made that possible.
Bernie Sanders tried but did not get enough votes when he ran for president because the government paying for your healthcare is apparently bad for some reason.
Its bad for profits. And since the government is run by people with a vested interest in profits, it wont change anytime soon. All the oligarchs have to do is convince enough rubes that universal healthcare is bad, and it will never see the light of day.
Candidates*
Real change will come from house and senate.
Might is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence.
Its important to make incremental progress. Kamala was a standard dem like Joe. Still they are open to hearing good ideas; compared to Trump.
Trump is open to hearing good ideas too. Problem is, “good” is highly subjective.
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Why though, many of them voted for Trump, next month antivax RFK Jr. will be health minister. Trump has claimed a healthcare plan will be ready “next week” for the past 8 years. People wanted Obamacare gone. So what do you want? Healthcare or no healthcare?
They want obamacare gone, but they like their affordable care act.
What this country really needs is some RomneyCare.
Wish granted. $100k deductible for all. GiGa subsidies for insurance corporations.
“We did it Patrick, we did Healthcare reform!” - democrats probably
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I don’t think this has ever been contended. I believe the issue dividing camps is in the how
Uh… Not really
That’s a slightly different question (opinion on the ACA vs whether the government should ensure that everyone has healthcare).
Although the latter is also true, according to the OP article:
The poll found that a majority of Republicans still believe ensuring health coverage is not the government’s job, but the majority has shrunk since 2020.
That year, only 22% of Republican voters believed the government should ensure everyone in the country has healthcare, but that number has now grown to 32%.
TIL 38% of Americans are CEO’s
38% are the, I never have to go to the doctor. I never get sick. Until one day, they realize what an absolute nightmare the healthcare system is. 38% are probably the percentage that have had use for anything other than doctors visits.
TIL 38% of Americans are CEO’s and/or bootlickers.
FTFY
Temporarily embarrassed CEOs
Not “coverage”, “affordable coverage”. I don’t want coverage through whatever capitalist exploit insurance company. I want affordable healthcare without lifesucking middlemen
That’s a single payer health system. Government pays the health providers You pay the government through taxes.
The coverage the fire department provides is affordable. And my Library. And my streets. And the storm water system. And K-12.
Yeah but only sick people use healthcare so fuck them. /s
Capitalist healthcare is class eugenics. CMV.
What about unaffordable healthcare only available to the top 1% – project 2025
and yet a good portion of y’all voted for trump and the republicans…
Only 23% of people living in the USA voted for Trump
That is 65% more than the percentage of people that, according to this post, dont want health coverage for everyone
23% voted for Trump, and 55% also indirectly did by not voting or going third-party.
And a lot of people who want healthcare didn’t bother voting.
Your inactions have consequences.
Tbf the Democrats aren’t particularly interested in addressing healthcare either… the money has to be removed from the system for it to improve. It is currently working as designed.
So you’d rather live in a fascist dictatorship than a neoliberal semidemocracy?
The world doesn’t have to be this way, dragonfucker. False dichotomies only keep us in our place.
Yeah, you could have protests, and direct action, or even a revolution. Which are all way harder in a fascist dictatorship. You voted for the dichotomy.
“but I couldn’t vote for the Democrats in good faith!!!”
Well now you’ve helped elect Trump. Hope that aligns with your morals!
(General “you”, not you specifically)
Aren’t you concerned at all with the large number of people that are under represented by their choices in the voting booth?
State level electoral reform will give more political parties the chance to be involved in future elections with no chance of a spoiler effect.
People would be free to vote for their preferred candidate, safe in the knowledge that their vote would still be counted against the republicans.
Who could say no to more democracy? Who could possibly be against ensuring their fellow country men/women/and more are fully represented to the best of our ability? Republicans? Yes, of course they are against democracy. How about the democratic party? Do they support democracy?
More political parties means more chances to beat the Republicans. More political parties means more people are involved in politics. More people being involved in politics statistically means more votes for the democratic party.
Why is the DNC saying no to these easy extra votes? Why wouldn’t democrats use every tool at their disposal to defeat the republicans?
Perhaps they view their poltical party to be more important then the nation state itself. Party over country, at all costs.
Aren’t you concerned at all with the large number of people that are under represented by their choices in the voting booth?
Yes, but they should still vote. Anyone who didn’t vote decided that they’re okay with Trump. Generally, anyone not okay with Trump who didn’t vote is either stupid, ignorant, or lying about not being okay with Trump being elected.
State level electoral reform will give more political parties the chance to be involved in future elections with no chance of a spoiler effect.
Yeah, I agree. But you don’t have that. So we work with the system we have.
Who could say no to more democracy? Who could possibly be against ensuring their fellow country men/women/and more are fully represented to the best of our ability? Republicans? Yes, of course they are against democracy. How about the democratic party? Do they support democracy?
If you think that Trump is worse than the Democrat candidate, then you vote Democrat. Deciding not to vote doesn’t give you more democracy, it gives you less.
More political parties means more chances to beat the Republicans. More political parties means more people are involved in politics. More people being involved in politics statistically means more votes for the democratic party.
Not with FPTP. I’m in Canada, where we realistically have a 3-party system. What happens in some parts of the country (including Federally) is the Left vote gets split and the Right vote often ends up winning.
Why is the DNC saying no to these easy extra votes? Why wouldn’t democrats use every tool at their disposal to defeat the republicans?
If it were that simple and easy, they’d do it. But it’s not. If the Right doesn’t split too, and if FPTP isn’t replaced with something better, then the Left has just screwed itself out of ever being elected again.
The average American is stupid and thus easily confused. Hell, half of us read at a 6th grade level…
What % of Congress agrees? There’s lots of stuff the public wants that Congress doesn’t get lobbied to get. Health insurance companies spent $113 million on lobbying Congress JUST in 2024. Until the public can pony up that kind of money, Congress is going to listen to their masters.
The midterm campaign should literally just be, “Death to Health Insurance, Public Health Now”.
No other issues. Campaign on that as a mandate. If we can only change one big thing at a time then we should only promise one big thing.
Some of Tim Walz’s largest donors are health insurance and professionals. They have financial incentives to keep the status quo. With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans?
Walz doesn’t have a seat anymore. And what do the Democrats have to lose by actually moving left?
I’d say the reason the Democrats won’t move left is because the party elite have a lot of donors they’d piss off by actually supporting serious leftist economic policy.
Maybe I’m wrong. Hell, I’d love to be wrong. But I’ve sort of lost hope that the democratic party is ever going to deliver.
Yeah I get that. But it would be the kind of move that shakes up losing all of the swing states, the popular vote, and both legislative bodies. Political parties want to get elected and “normal” campaigning isn’t doing it anymore. A few more losses like this and there won’t be a democratic party.
Why even complain? We all know Dems will vote blue no matter who next cycle
Well tbf the reason I’m complaining is that the status quo sucks and isn’t going to get better, even if the Dems sweep next election.
But what about the donors?
The Democrats have the infrastructure. Screw the big donors. Run an actual grass roots campaign. It’s not like they can do any worse at this point.
Historically we can change zero big things at a time. But I agree with you. Our rate of change has got to change. (Mathematics/physics joke goes here.)
How many of those 62% voted for the guy who wants to let insurance companies deny even harder?
let insurance companies deny even harder
Sooner death for insurance companies
too fuckin’ many, and how many sat this one out?
Could be 0, most people didn’t bother to vote in the last election.
36% of the eligible voting population did not vote.
I am not a mathematologist, but I’m pretty sure 36 is less than 62.
I thought I’d read it was higher, guess I am mistaken.
36+62=98 what did that last 2% do lol?
Not sure if I’m getting wooshed here, but in case you’re serious:
You’re adding percentages of two different groups
- 36% of voters did not vote, presumably 64% did
- 62% of voters want universal healthcare, presumably 38% don’t
It’s nonsensical to add 62+36 and wonder about the “missing” 2
Nah, I just fucked up and now will have to live with the shame lol. Thanks for the correction though.
