Fair enough. More accurate to say “as much as if not more than”. My points stand, and if a poll was commissioned explicitly on “instead” I’ll bet the result would be the same, especially since that poll was taken when ACA was already in effect for years as the standard (implicitly posing it as the alternative to single-payer universal). It wasn’t a poll asking people if they wanted steak when they were starving, it was a poll asking people if they wanted steak when they were eating hot dogs.
Also recall that people at a Fox News town hall were cheering Sanders’ “Medicare for All” (AKA SPU) plan. The fact is that you’ll find very few voters who would choose to deal with for-profit insurers at all, ACA or no ACA, when they’re in the middle of a health crisis if they’re offered a non-profit SPU alternative. Physicians, including those who’d be opposed to an NHS-style system, don’t much like dealing with for-profit insurers either.
I kind of hope Biden sticks with the strategy you describe, though, since it’s a truly universal and personal issue for voters that could further sink his chances in contrast to what Sanders and Warren are offering.
