14 statistics on most important healthcare issues for 2016 — Democrats vs. Republicans

Healthcare is the top voter issue for Democrats in 2016 with 43 percent reporting healthcare as “extremely important” to their vote in the November election; only 37 percent of Republicans said the same with healthcare falling behind terrorism, economy and government spending, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.

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The healthcare issues that voters say are most important differ between Democrats and Republicans as well.

 

Democrats:

 

1. Healthcare costs: 36 percent
2. Increase access to healthcare/insurance: 28 percent
3. Favor/expand healthcare law: 10 percent

 

Republicans:

 

1. Oppose/repeal healthcare law: 42 percent
2. Healthcare costs: 24 percent
3. Increase access to healthcare/insurance: 18 percent

 

The issues voters are following most closely right now include:

 

1. 2016 presidential campaigns: 51 percent
2. Conflicts involving ISIS and other Islamic militant groups: 36 percent
3. Unsafe levels of lead found in the drinking water in Flint, Mich.: 30 percent
4. FBI order requiring Apple to unlock the shooting suspect’s iPhone: 30 percent
5. Death of Justice Antonin Scalia and vacancy on the Supreme Court: 29 percent
6. The Zika virus outbreak: 23 percent
7. Supreme Court case on Texas abortion laws: 15 percent
8. The healthcare law’s third open enrollment period: 14 percent

 

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