text: Support for moving to a single payer health care system consistently shows anywhere from over 50% to 70% of Americans support that idea.  Opposition to single payer seems increasingly to reside primarily with aging Baby Boomers who are enrolled in a single payer system but want to deny it to younger Americans.  With the motto of the "conservative" Boomers boiling down to "screw you, I got mine" this is not surprising.