A recent poll of Michigan Democratic voters asked about the 2026 U.S. Senate primaries and their views on various topics.
The WDIV/Detroit News poll asked Democratic voters across the state to give their opinions on a variety of 2026 primary election topics. Some of these questions concerned their views on the American health care system.
Here are the results:
Here is the exact wording of the question asked over the phone: Would you support or oppose moving the American health care system to a single-payer system in which everyone would be covered by a Medicare-style health care system?
Support: 82.8%
Against: 9.6%
Don’t know/Refused: 7.6%
I fully support – 64.2%
Some support – 18.6%
Rather against – 4.8%
Strongly against – 4.8%
Don’t know/depends – 7.6%
Here is the exact wording of the question asked over the phone: Would you support or oppose this change if you knew that anyone with insurance through their employer or through a union would no longer receive those benefits and would be transferred to the federal health care system?
Support: 66.5%
Against: 21.5%
Don’t know/Depends: 12.0%
Full support – 40.9%
Some support – 25.6%
Rather against – 9.3%
Strongly against – 12.2%
Depends/Don’t know/Refused – 12.0%
Survey methodology
WDIV and the Detroit News commissioned a survey of likely Democratic primary voters in Michigan in August 2026. The survey was conducted by Glengariff Group, Inc.
This was a telephone survey of 500 operators conducted from July 8 to July 11, 2026.
The error is +/- 4.4%, the confidence level is 95%.
Of those surveyed, 17.4% of respondents called by landline phone, and 82.6% by mobile phone.
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