Health Care Tops U.S. Concerns

by Donna Jablonski, Mar 29, 2006

Being able to find and afford health care is the top concern of Americans today, according to survey results released Tuesday by Gallup (subscription required).  Editor & Publisher reports: “A total of 68 percent said they worried about this a ‘great deal.’ Coming in second is the Social Security system at 51 percent. Following close behind that were ‘availability and affordability of energy,’ drug use, crime and violence–and only then ‘the possibility of terrorist attacks in the U.S.’ (at 45 percent).” Gallup says health care is the top-ranking concern among Democrats, Republicans and Independents—although Democrats tend to be more worried overall.
 
Other research reports also point to concerns about the economy.  In a March 2006 poll from Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg, three choices were tied when respondents were asked about the biggest economic problem for the country—”jobs leaving the U.S.,” oil and energy prices and the Iraq war.

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