Poll Shows Majority Support for Medicare-For-All as 2020 Revs Up

A majority of Americans support a national “Medicare-for-all” system, according to a new survey by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation released as Democratic presidential candidates jump into the 2020 primary field.

Fifty-six percent of Americans said they favor “a national health plan,” sometimes called Medicare-for-all, in which all U.S. citizens would get their insurance from a single government plan, while 42 percent oppose the idea, the poll found.

The survey, released Wednesday, comes as the issue of transitioning toward Medicare-for-all has become a litmus test for many in the progressive base as a way of expanding health coverage to all ...