Americans Actually Do Want Medicare for All

merica's public debate on health care has long been riddled with misleading talking points, bad-faith commentary, and insurance industry agitprop.

This should come as no surprise: in 2017, health-care spending hit a whopping $3.5 trillion nationwide (accounting for nearly 18 percent of GDP) and for-profit insurers stand to lose unspeakable profit should a single-payer system ever be legislated into existence.

Nevertheless, polling has suggested a majority of Americans want just such a system. This shouldn't be a surprise either: America's largely corporate-run health-care regime is an overly bureaucratized morass that privileges private profit over public good and allows thousands of people to die needlessly every year (while bankrupting many thousands more in the process).