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But there is an enormous catch: Not all Medicare expansion plans are the same and there is more support for some than for others.
That could end up being a sticking point for a lot of Americans.
Nearly half of Republicans (47%) are in favor of creating a national government-administered health plan if it allows people to keep their coverage, compared with only 23% of Republicans who favor Medicare-for-all as it is, a form of single-payer health insurance. A little over half (53%) of independents favor Medicare-for-all.
In fact, after being told that a Medicare-for-all plan may eliminate all private health insurance companies, only 37% of all Americans still favored the proposal and 58% opposed it, according to the Kaiser poll.
Most people don’t think that Medicare-for-all means they would have to give up their current insurance: Fifty-five percent said they thought they would be able to keep their insurance under such a plan, and just 35% said they wouldn’t.
Most people (77%) understand that the plan would result in higher taxes.
But Democrats still aren’t sure how to proceed. Around half (47%) of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said Democrats in the House should focus on improving and protecting the 2010 Affordable Care Act, while the other half (44%) wanted to focus on passing a national Medicare-for-all plan, from the Kaiser poll.
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