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Guns, Jobs, or Health Care? In 2018, Voters Split as to Top Issue

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One-fourth of insured Americans, about 41 million people, were defined as under-insured in late 2016, double the 2003 rate when The Fund began to poll on this question. Half of under-insured adults had problems with medical bills or debt, and 2 in 5 said they did not get needed healthcare due to cost.

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Americans Are Warming to Universal Health Care, Kaiser Poll Finds

Health Populi

Other issues, like a new Medicare-for-All plan, repealing/replacing the ACA, and protecting people from surprise medical bills were less important to people. percent in 2016 at the moment when President Trump promised to “repeal and replace” the ACA. from a low of 10.9 Of course, this has not happened.

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