According to this poll from Rasmussen:

Twenty-nine percent (29%) of American adults favor a national health insurance program overseen by the Federal Government. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 39% oppose such a government-led initiative while 31% are not sure

The survey also found that 46% believe the quality of care would decrease under a national health insurance program while 16% believe that quality would increase. Twenty percent (20%) say the quality of care would remain about the same while 18% are not sure

At the same time, 42% believe the cost of health care would increase while 25% would expect prices to go down.

The strong pluralities which believe that health care would both get more expensive and go down in quality are perhaps the most telling, mostly because they’re right.  A nationalized health care system in America would be an atrociously expensive way to lower the overall quality of care for the average American.  Sure the quality of care might improve for a small number of Americans on the social and financial margins, but do we really want to lower the quality of care for all Americans to the lowest common denominator in order to improve care for the small minority?

That would be madness, and clearly no small number of Americans get this

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