Are Health Care Costs THE Top Issue for Voters? Author: Drew Altman Published: Jul 29, 2026

https://www.kff.org/from-drew-altman/are-health-care-costs-the-top-issue-for-voters/ In a new column, Dr. Drew Altman, Founding President and CEO, analyzes the polling on health costs as a voting issue and concludes that there is no one top voting issue. He writes: “I have come to the conclusion that the search for a single top issue through polling questions—whether it’s health costs, or gas prices, or the cost of food—is artificial. People worry about and experience these costs together. There is no top issue,…