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Democrats Support Expanding Medicare, with Some Caveats that Could Matter to Voters

Amanda Becker and Ginger Gibson  |  

“Still have to pay all this money before insurance covers anything,” Dickson said. “I pay taxes for a lot of different stuff anyway. I think it’s for a good cause.”

The Reuters/Ipsos online poll of 2,936 people was conducted Feb. 27 to March 4. It has a credibility interval, a measure of the poll’s precision, of 2 percentage points.

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(For a graphic on the poll: https://tmsnrt.rs/2Uxt1Eh)

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