Americans are warming to a healthcare idea that once seemed politically impossible

Americans have hit a breaking point with health insurance. Saddled with growing medical bills and totally reliant on stable jobs to stay healthy, the majority of Americans now say they would prefer a government plan that offers health insurance to everyone. Two-thirds of U.S. adults now support a national healthcare plan or “Medicare for All,” according to recent polling from health policy research group KFF. That’s a dramatic increase from 2020, when 53% of U.S. adults favored universal healthcare through a government plan, an option common among other wealthy nations. In the poll, 32% of respondents said they would “strongly favor” a single government healthcare plan that provides insurance for all Americans. An additional 34% of those polled said they would “somewhat favor” the overhaul to the U.S. healthcare system, with just 15% saying they “somewhat oppose” the idea and 19% saying they “strongly oppose” it. In the KFF poll, 84% of Democrats and 72% of independents were in favor of a national health insurance plan, compared to 34% of Republicans. Another survey published this week by Axios-Ipsos confirmed the swell of support for reinventing the current U.S. healthcare system…

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