There's one thing Americans understand about Medicare-for-all: It would mean higher taxes.
But they're otherwise pretty confused about what a single-payer health-care system could mean for them and their families.
Large sections of the public believe a Medicare-for-all-type system would result in smaller changes than what its leading proponents in Congress — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) — have proposed, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released today
Majorities of Americans said they think that under a national health plan, people would still be paying premiums, deductibles and co-pays for health coverage and could keep their employer-sponsored plans — even though the system envisioned by Sanders and Jayapal and embraced by many of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates would do away with all of that in favor of a single government-backed plan.
