Health Care is Important But Candidate Choice May Not Matter

We know healthcare matters to us but Washington is in a rut when it comes to health care and as consumers we must focus on what we insist upon to improve healthcare in the US, starting with out of pocket maximums, those amounts you and I must pay before our health insurance plans pay 100 percent of expenses of covered services.

In the year 2000, a Gallup poll concluded that after education and the economy health care came in as the THIRD most important issue to American voters.

"Health care and Medicare are two very important issues to the American public this year. A strong majority of Americans say that health care generally and Medicare more specifically are important issues influencing their vote for president." (Wendy W. Simmons, 9/28/2000, http://www.gallup.com/poll/2503/health-care-important-issue-year.aspx).

And in May 2015--Healthcare policy came in as the THIRD most important issue to American voters, (Jeffrey M. Jones, 5/15/2015, http://www.gallup.com/poll/183164/economy-trumps-foreign-affairs-key-2016-election-issue.aspx), (though Mr. Jones spends not a single word on the survey results about healthcare choosing instead to focus on "international matters.")