‘Medicare for All’ message attracts voters buckling under medical bills

A new KFF poll finds two-thirds of Americans now favor expanding Medicare, the highest support in at least a decade, even as many struggle to define exactly what Medicare for All would mean in practice. At a Michigan Senate town hall for candidate Abdul El-Sayed, attendees described owing thousands in medical debt and rationing care.

Michigan has seen steep ACA enrollment drops after Congress let enhanced subsidies expire, with insurers hiking marketplace rates about 20% and up to 355,000 Michiganders projected to lose Medicaid coverage by 2028 under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, per Urban Institute estimates.

A health policy professor quoted in the piece notes that after a decade of expanding coverage under the ACA, recent federal changes have begun reversing that progress, making Medicare for All resonate again as shorthand for systemic change among voters frustrated with rising costs.

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