REALCLEARHEALTH: Fund The Patient’s New Health Care Survey
If there is one lesson Washington should take from the latest national health care survey, it is this: Americans are tired of a system that spends trillions of dollars every year yet still leaves them feeling powerless.
A new nationwide survey conducted by Public Opinion Strategies for Fund The Patient offers a stark picture of voter sentiment heading into the 2026 midterm elections. The numbers are not just a warning to policymakers. They are a roadmap for reform – and these policies line up directly with President Trump’s Great Healthcare Plan.
The first takeaway is unmistakable: dissatisfaction with the healthcare system is deep and widespread. Eighty percent of voters say the U.S. healthcare system is either in crisis or plagued by major problems. Nearly half — 45 percent — say the system is failing their own families, while an even larger share believes it is failing most Americans.
That level of dissatisfaction should set off alarms in Congress. When a system touches every American family and four out of five voters believe it is broken, the political consequences are inevitable.
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