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Do you support a single-payer healthcare system?

Single-payer healthcare is a system where every citizen pays the government to provide core healthcare services for all residents. Under this system the government may provide the care themselves or pay a private healthcare provider to do so. In a single-payer system all residents receive healthcare regardless of age, income or health status. Countries with single-payer healthcare systems include the U.K., Canada, Taiwan, Israel, France, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

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Response rates from 1.3m America voters.

63%
Yes
37%
No
42%
Yes
31%
No
11%
Yes, but allow people to use private insurance
4%
No, the government should not be involved in healthcare
5%
Yes, this system guarantees healthcare for everyone
3%
No, this system is too expensive
5%
Yes, private companies should not be able to profit off of healthcare

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 @8CQ994Y from Texas  answered…6yrs6Y

Not enough knowledge on this.

 Deleted from  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, and enact a single-payer Medicare for All system that provides free queer sexual health and gender affirming healthcare, including HIV care, PrEP, fertilty treatments, birth control, abortion care, mental health care, hormone replacement therapy, and gender-affirming surgeries

 @9G9C49K from North Carolina  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, but allow certain state-based government-approved private clinics to carry out elective treatments or procedures to reduce wait times and improve efficiency

 @9GDMX4S from North Carolina  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, but allow certain state-based government-approved and regulated private clinics to carry out elective surgeries and treatments to improve efficiency and reduce wait times

 @9GRXNZC from North Carolina  answered…3yrs3Y

NO, we should completely deregulate the healthcare industry and allow insurance companies to work outside of individual states and even the country. Our insurance should be able to make deals with doctors and pharmaceutical companies in other countries. The only regulations should be breaking up relationships between big pharma and the insurance companies.

 @8F7S4QG from California  answered…6yrs6Y

No, have a mix of private and public, along with government step in to stop price gouging

 @95LCGPT from North Carolina  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but only if there is a policy of nationalization.

 @95K7BH7 from North Carolina  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but only if their is a policy of nationalization.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

Elizabeth Warren Walks Back Murder Comments

Congressional Democrats broadly denounced the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Friday morning, after Republicans started accusing Sen. Elizabeth Warren of excusing violence.“No one's condoning this,” said Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.). “Violence never is the right answer for anything. And it was a horrible murder, a tragic loss for his family.” Warren this week condemned the shooting, but added that people “can be pushed only so far.”"We'll say it over and over," Warren said on MSNBC’S “The ReidOut.” " Violence is never the answer. This guy [Luigi Mangione] gets a trial who's allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth, but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands."In a statement to POLITICO, Warren said, “Violence is never the answer. Period. I should have been much clearer that there is never a justification for murder.” Top Republicans denounced Warren's comments and the walked-back rhetoric, with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) calling it “inappropriate and dangerous.”Some House Democrats asked about the incident on Thursday pivoted the conversation to discuss policy options on health care or gun safety.“I don't really know that this is really a space that Congress normally weighs in on,” said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). “But at the end of the day, I think it’s an opportunity, because now people are talking about health care and to talk about the fact that this industry has honestly not been as helpful as it could be.”“Violence is never the answer,” said Rep. Troy Carter (D-La.). “We know that there are people suffering, there’s great challenges in healthcare. There's great challenges, and people have, in fact, been wronged, but a process of governance is the way to address that, not violence.”And Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) who denounced the murder, said the killer should be prosecuted and that “I do know that allegedly a ghost gun was used, and we should also ban ghost guns. There's no reason for them beyond the streets.”

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