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Our health care system is broken – and voters know it.
In November 2025, we commissioned a survey of 1,000 likely 2026 voters and found that Democratic candidates who embrace a clear, bold alternative to our crumbling healthcare system — Medicare for All — and reject smaller, incremental changes to our current unpopular system will be our strongest leaders in taking back the majority.
Americans are facing skyrocketing health care premiums that fatten the pockets of health insurance executives, are losing their doctors to inaccessible networks, and are slamming against the wall of bureaucratic indifference trying to get a bill covered. But a solid majority support a universal, Medicare for All alternative to our current system.
Our Biggest Finding
Democrats Win By Embracing Medicare For All in 2026
Across the board, including in battleground districts, a Medicare for All candidate wins. Voters heard a description of a candidate supporting a Republican agenda and a
description of a Democrat supporting a universal, Medicare for All health care system.
After these descriptions, the Democrat emerges with a 52% to 46% margin in a country that divides evenly in self-ascribed partisanship.
The question about whether or not we join the rest of the industrialized world in offering
a universal system is not if, but when. Our current system is unsustainable morally, fiscally, and increasingly, politically as well. Already, a strong majority of voters support a fundamental change and as prices begin to surge and evidence continues to pile up because of our current system’s failure, we expect that number to only grow.
How We Message
Use the Phrasing “Everyone Deserves Health Care
As we enter the primary season, voters will begin to sort candidates between those who represent the status quo and those who represent real change. Among the Democratic base, Medicare For All is becoming a non-negotiable. Among Democrats, 90% support a universal, Medicare for All health care system, with 77% support among Black voters, 71% support among women under age 50 and 74% support among voters under age 30.
The strongest arguments for Medicare For All revolve around cost, and the most powerful statement candidates can take argues for taking control of the health care system away from powerful corporations that put profit ahead of American health.
- Voters want to take back control of their health care. Even if they like their doctors, prior authorizations and denials of care make a lot of voters feel like the quality of care they receive is out of their control.
- “Everyone deserves health care,” a simple, declarative statement volunteered by voters, carries a lot of traction.
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Our current corporate health care system is failing. Four in ten (42%) voters spend over $300 a month on routine health care costs and 65% believe the federal government does too little to help people afford their health care. This economic stress compels voters to draw clear conclusions about corporate actors running the current system: a bi-partisan 69% majority react negatively toward prescription drug companies and 62% react negatively toward for-profit health insurance companies.
The reality is our current health care system is failing: it costs too much and produces too little. Insurance companies made 71 billion dollars last year. By removing the profit motive, we can lower the cost of health care for most people and improve outcomes. We need to take back control of our health care from greedy insurance companies and big drug companies that make billions of dollars denying coverage to people.
Everyone deserves health care. Our country deserves Medicare For All.
Polling Methodology
Our latest polling was a multi-modal survey conducted by the independent firm GQR from November 5th through 13th of 2025. We surveyed 1,000 likely 2026 voters, including an oversample of 200 voters in Congressional battleground states, with an overall margin of error of +/- 3.1% overall at the 95% confidence interval.
The data are statistically weighted to ensure the sample’s regional, age, and gender composition reflects that of registered voters nationwide and in battleground districts. Voters heard a robust and balanced description of a universal, Medicare for All system that included common opposition messaging, including that taxes would increase for some Americans if the plan is implemented.
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Our Key Findings
90%
90% of Democrats support a universal, Medicare for All health care system
56%
50% of all voters in congressional battlegrounds support a new system
54%
54% majority support a new system
20%
1 in 5 Republican voters support Medicare for All
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We believe health care must be affordable and accessible to all residents of the United States by improving and expanding a system that’s been popular and helpful to millions over the last 50 years: Medicare! Americans deserve so much more than our broken system, together we MUST demand it!