Pollsters, media and news consumers tend to put “the economy” and “health care” in separate policy categories, thinking of the economy as jobs/wages and health care as access to a quality doctor. However, for most Americans health care is an expense, a big one, that determines how and if the family is getting by on their salaries.
Multiple polls have shown that cost, not universal coverage, is the driving concern when it comes to health care. It is hardly surprising when, for example, the Monmouth poll finds, “Only 12% of Americans say that their family has benefited a great deal from recent growth in the U.