What Went Down In The Fifth Democratic Debate

Ninety-one percent of Democrats said that they favor a “national, government-administered health insurance plan that would be available to all individuals,” according to a CBS News poll released in October. Among Democrats who favor the plan, 57 percent said it would work better if it “competed with private insurance,” while 32 percent said it should replace all private insurance.

Buttigieg again emphasizes his opposition to Medicare for All.

In the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll conducted this week, 19.8 percent of people said health care was the most important issue to them in the Democratic primary — more than any other issue. Here’s who those respondents thought would be best at handling the issue. (See other results from the poll here.)

Who voters think is best on health care

Among the 751 respondents who said health care was the most important issue to them in an Ipsos/FiveThirtyEight poll

candidate		Share of respondents
Joe Biden	28.6%	– –
Bernie Sanders	26.8	– –
Elizabeth Warren	21.0	– –
Pete Buttigieg	8.0	– –
Someone else	4.1	– –
Kamala Harris	3.3	– –
Amy Klobuchar	2.9	– –
Tom Steyer	1.2	– –
Cory Booker	1.1	– –
Andrew Yang	0.5	– –
Tulsi Gabbard	0.0