By Meagan Day
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/medicare-for-all-popularity-polling
The demand for Medicare for All went from the center of the discourse to political exile in record time. But the policy’s popularity never faded. A new poll finds strong majority support for the neglected idea among Americans across the political spectrum.
With Republicans and Democrats uniting to kill Affordable Care Act tax credits, and Trump/Project 2025’s One Big Beautiful Bill set to render millions without healthcare coverage, the time is NOW to beef up bipartisan grassroots movement building efforts to eliminate corporate wealth extraction as the central feature of the U.S. healthcare system.
The days of holding onto the illusion that the Democratic Party leadership will turn against their corporate insurance and Big Pharma financiers is over, as in CA, they have repeatedly killed true single-payer healthcare reform.
The only thing that will fend-off the mass murder of millions of people and endangerment of the population due to unaffordable healthcare services is a powerful and transformative mass movement to challenge the control of private profiteers over the current system.
Suffering in career politicians’ districts and outrage will continue to mount. Maybe they should start paying attention to that bipartisan reality a big more than campaign financiers alone.
Seniors will soon find out about their premiums rising beyond rates of inflation in 2026. Comprising 11% of the CA population, 4.36 million seniors aged 65+ are among the most vulnerable members facing these attacks on healthcare.
In CA, while comprising 15.63 of the state’s population, 40% of “Latinos” are on some kind of Medicaid healthcare. With Trump’s cuts, that means soon, over 6 million face reductions or denial of healthcare.
The same goes for many working-class Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs) in CA. We comprise roughly 15.5 percent of California’s population (39,663,800 x 0.155=) and 9.3 percent of California’s Medi-Cal population. That’s 3.69 million APIs that will be impacted by Medicaid cuts (called “Medi-Cal” in CA).
As of September 2023, approximately 55,000 Medi-Cal members identified as American Indian and Alaska Native. In addition, the Project 2025 cuts will further accelerate rural hospital closures, which is likely to impact persons needing to travel outside of existing reservations for healthcare services.
African Americans in CA number 2.17 million, comprising 5.54% of the total population. More than 1 million of them will be impacted by the Medicaid cuts alone.
Join Asians and Pacific Islanders for CalCare or other grassroots organizations that are taking up the fight to win true single-payer reform in CA and nationally!
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