It has come to my attention that Ezra makes an excellent point about the inefficacy of attacking universal health care as “socialized medicine” from the last polling data. Now HSPH has a new poll released comparing health care systems of the United States to others. Again, there’s a huge split among party lines:

Question 1: “Some people say that the United States has the best health care system in the world. Others say that the health care systems of some other countries are better than the U.S. How about you? Do you think that in general the U.S. has the best health care system or are there other countries with better health care systems?”

Question 2: “Would you be more likely or less likely to support a presidential candidate who said the United States health care system should be more like the system in these other countries, or would it not make a difference to your vote?”

It seems as if Democrats shifting the national health care perspective towards their paradigm, and party line Republicans are increasingly out of step with the popular sentiment.

And Question 3: “Specifically thinking about [Canada, France, Great Britain], would you say that overall the United States has a better health care system than [Canada, France, Great Britain] or a worse health care system than [Canada, France, Great Britain]?”

When it comes to comparing our system to Canada, Britain, and France, more respondents say that any of these systems are better than those that say they are worse than the United States. Especially in the cases of Britain and France, however, most respondents admit they don’t know enough about them to make a decisive judgment.

UPDATE: Stupidly forgot to label the axes.