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by abap_rocky
2475 days ago
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Is there a reason you chose a link to the Media Research Center for the polling on healthcare rather than the poll itself[1]? The Media Research Center (MRC) is unapologetically opposed to left-wing ideas. From their About Us[2] section: >The Media Research Center is America’s premier media watchdog. Since 1987, the MRC has worked to expose and neutralize the propaganda arm of the Left: the national news media." Is that a source that we should trust to have a balanced view of a left-wing policy proposal? While the poll does show that only 21% support abolishing private insurance, it also shows that only 32% oppose abolishing private insurance. So you have a lot of people that aren't committed either way when it comes to private insurance. Overall, 56% support a national program even if it leads to higher taxes (vs 40% oppose). So the underlying data is quite different from what you are presenting. [1]: http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/07/01/rel8a.-.democrats.a... [2]: https://www.mrc.org/about |
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> Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-all plan, as currently written, would cancel every private insurance plan in the country. Polling suggests that’s lethal: When told that Medicare-for-all would abolish private insurance, respondents flip from favoring the plan by a 56 percent to 38 percent margin to opposing it by a 58 percent to 37 percent margin.