"A publicly sponsored health insurance plan"
"A public Plan"
The top choice with 74% approving; 53% strongly approving was "A public health insurance plan like Medicare"
This is significant because the Obama plan is nothing like Medicare, but Single-Payer is often referred to as "Medicare for All."
It is unfortunate that HCAN chose to formulate its questionnaire in a manner apparently intended to marginalize the Single-Payer option, and then utilized a sample design that excluded those most likely to strongly favor and most desperately require the single-payer option, but despite their best efforts it seems abundantly clear that Single-Payer is the option that would have prevailed over the others if it had been specifically included in the questionnaire.
One would hope that the debate over healthcare reform will evolve into one that provides a level playing field for all the options with advocates for single-payer finally being afforded a seat at the table largely denied them until now.
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