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As of May 27: "KFF polling finds more Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents would prefer voting for a candidate who wants to build on the ACA in order to expand coverage and reduce costs rather than replace the ACA with a national Medicare-for-all plan (Figure 12). Additionally, KFF polling has found broader public support for more incremental changes to expand the public health insurance program in this country including proposals that expand the role of public programs like Medicare and Medicaid (Figure 13). And while partisans are divided on a Medicare-for-all national health plan, there is robust support among Democrats, and even support among over four in ten Republicans, for a government-run health plan, sometimes called a public option (Figure 14). "

https://www.kff.org/slideshow/public-opinion-on-single-payer-national-health-plans-and-expanding-access-to-medicare-coverage/

Besides, the vast majority of countries who have UHC don't use single payer to get to UHC, but a hybrid of public/private mechanisms to administrate and deliver health care.

There are politicians who claim that new information that comes in that changes the equation from what they propose is just HATE, and must be totally false, and PROPAGANDA from nefarious sources, and should not be listened to.

By your own standard, would you say that they are smart people, or not so smart people?