In a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, a whopping 12 percent of Americans supported decreased funding for Medicaid. On the other side of the ledger, 87 percent wanted to maintain funding levels or increase them. Medicare is even more popular. In a Pew survey, 94 percent of Democrats said they want to maintain or increase Medicare spending. Okay, but they’re, ya know, Democrats. You may be interested in learning, however, that 85 percent of Republicans agreed with them.
