clipped from: www.reuters.com BOSTON (Reuters) - Most Democrats say "socialized medicine" would be better than the current U.S. health care system, while most Republicans say it would be worse, a poll by the Harvard School of Public Health showed on Thursday.
The survey did not provide a definition of that term and one in three voters said they did not understand it. But more than 70 percent said they understood it to mean "the government makes sure everyone has health insurance".
Nationwide, about 45 percent of respondents said they believed such a system would be better for the country, while 39 percent said it would be worse, according to the poll of 1,030 voters surveyed Feb 6-10.
About 70 percent of Republicans said socialized medicine would be worse than the current system, while the same percentage of Democrats said it would be better.