Jonathan Cohn: The results from Tuesday’s special election in New York demonstrated the popularity of Medicare and unpopularity of Republican plans to dismantle it. But neither fact should be surprising. Medicare is a universal program for retirees: Everybody has an obvious, direct stake in its future. And the Republican plans for Medicare amount to privatization. Everybody understands what that means and most find it scary. But Medicare isn’t the only program on the Republican target list. Medicaid is, too…
In a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 60 percent of respondents said they oppose Republican Medicaid plans and only 35 percent said they support them.”