49 percent have some support for single-payer healthcare system

Published September 20, 2017 3:59pm ET



A plurality of voters hold some degree of support for a single-payer system under which they would receive health insurance from the government, according to a poll released Wednesday by Politico and Morning Consult.

Twenty-four percent of respondents said they “strongly” support such a system and 25 percent said they “somewhat” support such a system, for a total of 49 percent. Seventeen percent did not have an opinion and the remainder either “strongly” or “somewhat” said they opposed a single-payer system.

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