For Democrats in Washington, the question of how to talk to voters about health care is a vexing one.

In the wake of the election, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which works to elect Democrats to the U.S. House, commissioned a survey and analysis from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and GBA Strategies to help think through health care messaging.

In April, the firm’s veteran pollster Stan Greenberg briefed House Democrats on the findings with a presentation at the offices of the Democratic National Committee.

The messaging handouts, obtained by The Intercept, made clear where the party wants its candidates to stand when it comes to health care reform: preferably nowhere, but certainly not with single-payer advocates.

The polling memorandum, produced by GBA Strategies and Greenberg’s firm, was composed by surveying 52 so-called battleground districts, half of which are currently held by Democrats and half by Republicans.

The question that Greenberg put before Democrats to make the case against single-payer, though, is a highly unusual one (emphasis in original): “If you could change one thing about your healthcare or health insurance, what would it be?”

The question was not about what kind of system the voter would prefer, but a surprising 12 percent still said they wanted their own insurance to be single-payer. Still, it’s unclear what this means in the context of the question, beyond suggesting that at least 12 percent of voters are so passionate about single-payer that they offered it as a non sequitur answer.

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The plurality answered precisely as one would expect them to: They want their health insurance — premiums, deductibles, and drug costs — to be cheaper. High health insurance price is the leading complaint about former President Barack Obama’s health care law, though the high cost was a deliberate political decision by Democrats in 2009, who argued that the public’s alleged concerns about the deficit meant that public subsidies for insurance should be curtailed.