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Support or opposition to Medicare for all or a single comprehensive public plan, in CES 2018, 2020, and 2022; the 2018 wording is shorter and omits the single-plan description.
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Latest: 68% answered “Support” in CES: Expand Medicare to cover all Americans, 2022.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Provide Medicare for all Americans | Provide Medicare for all Americans Thinking now about health care policy, would you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Provide Medicare for all Americans.] Caveat: 2018 wording is shorter ('Provide Medicare for all Americans'); omits single-plan description | similar | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Expand Medicare to a single public coverage program | Expand Medicare to a single public coverage program Thinking now about health care policy, would you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Expand Medicare to a single comprehensive public health care coverage program that would cover all Americans.] Caveat: Wording appears truncated in the archive but matches the 2022 item | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Expand Medicare to cover all Americans | Expand Medicare to cover all Americans Thinking now about health care policy, would you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Expand Medicare to a single comprehensive public health care coverage program that would cover all Americans.] Caveat: Reference wording; full single-plan description | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |