Healthcare overtakes the economy as top voter worry in Gallup poll
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
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| 0:36.1 | It's no longer the economy. It's no longer inflation. It's not immigration. It's not crime. It's not even energy prices. According to the latest Gallup poll, the top concern for Americans is now health care. 61% saying they worry a great deal about it. That puts |
| 0:58.3 | it ahead of all other categories. And this is the first time since around 2020, COVID era, that |
| 1:06.1 | health care has reclaimed the top spot in national polling. And it has a lot to do with fixing fraud. It has to do with the |
| 1:15.6 | cost of health care. It also has to do with the availability of health care. You got to talk about |
| 1:22.0 | fixing it before you can expand it. You can't build on a foundation that's rotting from the inside. And I understand |
| 1:30.7 | this. You're also talking about the cost of prescription drugs as being a big concern for Americans. |
| 1:37.1 | Healthcare, number one issue now. Yeah, we talk about a lot of polls because they are interesting |
| 1:41.9 | and they do give us a snapshot into what the |
| 1:44.2 | American people are thinking at that specific moment in time. But what I found fascinating |
| 1:48.1 | about this specific Gallup poll, and you're right, number one, 61% of Americans say they worry |
| 1:53.2 | a great deal about health care. Number two is the economy. Number three is inflation. Number |
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