Majority Favor Single-Payer and Higher Taxes on Cigarettes, Alcohol, Snacks and Wealthy
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
While members of Congress dicker about overhauling the nation’s health care system, a majority of Americans are in favor of solutions their representatives are not even considering. These include single-payer and government-run models, as well as raising taxes. These findings were reported in the latest tracking poll by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation that showed 59% support a government-administered public health insurance option to compete with private insurance plans, and 51% are even willing to adopt a Canadian-style system where the government provides payment for all health care services.
Increasing taxes also is not an issue for a majority of Americans, according to the Kaiser poll. Those in the “strongly or somewhat favor” categories preferred raising taxes on cigarettes (64%), on the rich (64%), on alcohol, wine and beer (61%), and junk food (55%).
-Noel Brinkerhoff
July Survey Finds Continuing Support For Health Care Reform (Kaiser Health Tracking Poll) (PDF)
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