Source: Health Care in the 1998 Congressional Election: November 1998 Most Important
I have some questions about what the President (Bill Clinton) and the new Congress should try to accomplish in the next year. What do you think is the single most important issue or problem they should deal with?
Asked of half sample
Note: Totals exceed one hundred percent due to multiple responses
15% Education
13 Social Security
12 Health care
11 Clinton/Lewinsky/Impeachment
10 Economy/jobs
8 Foreign policy/International
6 Taxes
5 National debt/deficit/budget
3 Morality/Moral standards
2 Crime
5 Other social issues
7 All other issues/problems
13 Don't know
Survey by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Harvard School of Public Health. Methodology: Fieldwork conducted by telephone by Princeton Survey Research Associates with 1,501 adults nationwide, 18 years and older, including 751 voters in the November election, between November 4 and December 6, 1998.