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Democrats Hold a Nearly 2-to-1 Advantage Over Republicans on Handling the Cost of Health Care

Poll: Cost of Health Care and Gas Top Voters’ Midterm Concerns; Democrats Hold Significant Advantage on Health Care Costs and Cost of Living 

With the 2026 midterms about a month away, health care costs remain tied with gas as voters’ top midterm concerns and the Democrats hold a clear edge over the Republicans Party on who voters trust to handle many top electoral issues, including the cost of health care and the cost of living. Two-thirds of U.S. adults now favor Medicare-for-all, a new high in KFF Polling, but support shifts when competing claims from critics and proponents are heard.

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Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs

This data note reviews our recent polling data that finds that many Americans struggle to afford many aspects of health care, including disproportionate shares of uninsured adults, Black and Hispanic adults and those with lower incomes.

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Is This A Healthcare Economy?

Health care employment has grown faster than other sectors of the economy, with jobs in physician offices, hospitals, outpatient care centers, home health, and other settings increasing over the past year even as the rest of the job market plateaued. 

Cumulative percent change in health sector and non-health sector employment, January 1990 - August 2026

What Are the Recent Trends in Health Sector Employment

Health care employment continues to grow even as hiring across other sectors has plateaued. The health sector added nearly 379,000 jobs over the past year, a 2% increase, compared with just 0.2% growth in other non-farm employment, with outpatient care among the fastest-growing health care settings.

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TrumpRx prices for brand-name drugs are about as likely to be higher as lower compared to average prices in other wealthy countries, according to an analysis that compares 32 brand-name drugs.

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  • Annual Increase in National Health Expenditures and Their Share of Gross Domestic Product, 2001-2011

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    Annual Increase in National Health Expenditures and Their Share of Gross Domestic Product, 2001-2011 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation calculations using NHE data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group, at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/ (see Historical; National Health Expenditures by type of service and source of funds, CY 1960-2011; file nhe2011.zip). Gross Domestic Product data from Bureau of Economic Analysis, at http://bea.gov/national/index.htm#gdp (file gdplev.xls).

  • Annual Percent Change in National Health Expenditures, by Selected Sources of Funds, 1960-2011

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    Annual Percent Change in National Health Expenditures, by Selected Sources of Funds, 1960-2011 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation calculations using NHE data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group, at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/ (see Historical; National Health Expenditures by type of service and source of funds, CY 1960-2011; file nhe2011.zip). 

  • Annual Percent Change in Private Health Insurance Expenditures Per Enrollee (Adjusted for Inflation), 1970-2011

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    Annual Percent Change in Private Health Insurance Expenditures Per Enrollee (Adjusted for Inflation), 1970-2011 Download Source Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group, at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/ (see Historical; NHE Web tables, Table 21), and CPI data from Bureau of Labor Statistics at ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt (All Urban Consumers, All Items, 1982-1984=100, Not Seasonally Adjusted, U.S. city average). 

  • Average Annual Percent Change in National Health Expenditures, 1960-2011

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    Average Annual Percent Change in National Health Expenditures, 1960-2011 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation calculations using NHE data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group, at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/ (see Historical; National Health Expenditures by type of service and source of funds, CY 1960-2011; file nhe2011.zip). 

  • Cumulative Change in Single and Family Health Insurance Premiums and Federal Poverty Level, 1996-2011

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    Cumulative Change in Single and Family Health Insurance Premiums and Federal Poverty Level, 1996-2011 Download Source Premium data from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, private sector data from Insurance Component, 1996-2010, at http://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/.  Federal Poverty Level based on HHS Federal Poverty Guidelines (1996 through 2011) at http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/figures-fed-reg.shtml; rate of growth based on change for one person (change for a four-person family would be  43.3% rather than 40.7% over the period). 

  • Cumulative Increases in Health Insurance Premiums, Workers’ Contributions to Premiums, Inflation, and Workers’ Earnings, 1999-2012

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    EHBS-Cumulative-Increases-in-Health-Insurance-Premiums-Workers-Contributions-to-Premiums-Inflation-and-Workers-Earnings-1999-2012-HEALTHCOSTS Download Source Kaiser/HRET Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits, 1999-2012.  Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, U.S. City Average of Annual Inflation (April to April), 1999-2012; Bureau of Labor Statistics, Seasonally Adjusted Data from the Current Employment Statistics Survey, 1999-2012 (April to April). 

  • Net Cost of Private Health Insurance, Including Administrative Costs, per Person Covered, 1987-2011

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    Net-Cost-of-Private-Health-Insurance-Including-Administrative-Costs-per-Person-Covered-1987-2011-HEALTHCOSTS Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation calculations NHE data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group, at  http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/ (see Historical; National Expenditures by type of service and source of funds, CY1960-2011, file nhe2011.zip, Total Admin. & Total Net Cost of Hlth Insurance Exp, Pvt Health Insurance); and private health insurance enrollment data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group,…

  • Percent Distribution of National Health Expenditures, by Source of Funds, 1960-2011

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    Percent Distribution of National Health Expenditures, by Source of Funds, 1960-2011 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation calculations using NHE data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group, at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/ (see Historical; National Health Expenditures by type of service and source of funds, CY 1960-2011; file nhe2011.zip). 

  • Per Enrollee Growth in Medicare Spending and Private Health Insurance Premiums (for Common Benefits), 1970-2011

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    Per Enrollee Growth in Medicare Spending and Private Health Insurance Premiums (for Common Benefits), 1970-2011 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation calculations using NHE data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group, at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/ (see Historical; NHE Web tables, Table 21).