Poll: Nearly half of voters support single-payer health care

Nearly half of voters in a new survey support a “single-payer health care system.”

A Politico/Morning Consult poll finds 49 percent of respondents support a single-payer health care system in which “Americans would get their health insurance from one government plan.”

About one-third of voters, 35 percent, oppose the idea.

{mosads}Another 17 percent don’t have an opinion.

Among Democratic voters, two-thirds support the idea, compared to 18 percent who oppose it.

A majority of Republicans, 52 percent, opposes the single-payer option, compared to 33 percent who support it.

When asked about a “public option” — a “government-run health insurance agency that would compete with other private health insurance companies within the U.S.” — 44 percent of voters said they supported that choice.

Thirty-three percent of respondents opposed the public option.

The poll was conducted from Sept. 14 to 17 among 1,994 registered voters. Its margin of error is 2 percentage points.

The poll comes after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) last week introduced his “Medicare for all” bill alongside a number of other Democratic senators.

“The American people want to know what we’re going to do to fix a dysfunctional health care system, which costs us twice as much” per person as any other country, Sanders said when he introduced the bill.