Is Tuition-free College or Single-payer Healthcare better for Dems to focus on?

[UncleSam]

Definitely single-payer healthcare. Free college is a loser for one simple readon: the primary beneficiaries cannot vote. It sounds dumb and biased but people vote in their own self interest, so healthcare is clearly the winner here.

I would caution the assumption that health insurance = health care, however. Many, many people cannot afford healthcare even with 'insurance', as the deductibles and premiums are so high that in many cases the responsible thing to do is to not get health insurance.

The problem with healthcare is one of cost, and that is what Dems should pitch. The free market will do very little to regulate the cost of medical care because they have little leverage over hospitals and physicians in negotiations due to the Medicaid system. If we got Medicare for all, we could couple that with a limit on costs tied to global procedure costs that could tackle the heart of the problem and this actually potentially decrease taxes in comparison to the failures of ObamaCare.