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Bernie Sanders said in debate that people don't like health insurance companies. Correct.
He said on ABC, though, that private insurance itself isn't "particularly popular." The numbers show it's very popular with people who have it. My look at the data:
cnn.com/2019/07/03/pol…
He said on ABC, though, that private insurance itself isn't "particularly popular." The numbers show it's very popular with people who have it. My look at the data:
cnn.com/2019/07/03/pol…
"Particularly popular" is subjective, and there's some data that lends support to Sanders's claim about private insurance, so I'm not saying this is "false." But years of data shows, at least, that there's more to the popularity story than Sanders suggested to Stephanopoulos.
A Sanders aide who insisted on anonymity made a valid point: surveys that ask people about happiness with their own private insurance do not count the opinions on private insurance of people who can't afford private insurance. Anyway, see the numbers for yourself.
No: in many of the surveys, people are simply asked to rate the quality of care they get from their plans. Medicare consistently does extremely well. Employer-based insurance consistently does slightly less well than Medicare but still very well.
To repeat what I said in the piece, this is not a case where Sanders is making something up or being objectively inaccurate. It’s a case where there is information that cuts against his point, and it’s worth laying it out.
