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Despite the promises of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, more Americans now view health costs as the most urgent health problem facing the U.S., a new Gallup poll finds.
In Gallup's Health and Healthcare poll conducted Nov. 9-13, 27 percent of Americans listed healthcare costs as their top concern followed by access (20 percent), cancer (12 percent), and obesity (8 percent).
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For the past two years, cost and access have tied. Now cost is ranked number one with a clear lead.
Across party lines, Republicans, Independents and Democrats did not differ meaningfully in their selection of cost as the most urgent health problem facing the country.
College graduates’ mentions of the issue are up 11 percentage points from last year, as they learn upon graduation or outgrowing their parents’ plans the problem of rising costs in the exchange.
