Bernie Sanders’ call to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with a single-payer healthcare system is a policy that a strong majority of Americans agree with, according to a new Gallup survey released on Monday.
Fifty-eight percent of all U.S. adults favor replacing the ACA with a federally-funded healthcare program, such as Sanders’ Medicare for All.
This is compared with 48 percent who prefer to keeping Obama’s healthcare system in place, a policy which has been a cornerstone of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s campaign platform.
“While the ACA curbed some of the most egregious insurance abuses, our healthcare system remains a profit-focused, bureaucratic nightmare for far too many people,” Jean Ross, registered nurse and co-president of National Nurses United, told Common Dreams by email.
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Speaking to the Gallup survey findings, Ross added: “What the Bernie Sanders campaign has demonstrated is a broad, national longing for a more humane health care system that treats health care as a human right not based on ability to pay, or your age, gender, race, or where you live.” The 185,000-member union has endorsed the Vermont senator, citing his single-payer healthcare plan as one of the key reasons behind their support.
Last week, Clinton “took a step left,” as the New York Times put it, with the suggestion that as president she would offer a public option for people above a “certain age.”
Notably, when the results were broken down by party affiliation, Gallup found that 41 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters prefer the public option compared to just 16 percent who would want to keep the ACA.
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