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Health Care Is the Most Important Issue for Midterm Voters, Poll Says

  • Kaiser Foundation finds topic outranks economy, immigration
  • Most voters support expanding Medicaid program, poll finds
Photographer: Kholood Eid/Bloomberg
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Health care is the top issue for voters heading into the congressional midterm elections, with 71 percent saying it’s “very important,” according to a poll released Thursday by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

The economy ranked second, with 64 percent saying it was very important, followed by gun policy (60 percent) and immigration (55 percent).