Americans say the top priority for the next president and Congress is dealing with the high cost for chronic condition drugs, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.
Here are the top priorities, ranked by Democrats, Republicans and the total electorate:
1. Affordability for high-cost drugs for chronic conditions
• Democrats: 84 percent
• Republicans: 68 percent
• Total: 74 percent
2. Lower prescription drug prices
• Democrats: 75 percent
• Republicans: 49 percent
• Total: 63 percent
3. Ensuring there are sufficient numbers of doctors and hospitals in provider networks
• Democrats: 62 percent
• Republicans: 53 percent
• Total: 57 percent
4. Protecting from high drug prices when patients visit hospitals or outpatient clinics after being seen by a physician that their health plan doesn't cover
• Democrats: 60 percent
• Republicans: 43 percent
• Total: 54 percent
5. Making cost and quality data available to patients so they can compare providers
• Democrats: 59 percent
• Republicans: 42 percent
• Total: 53 percent
6. More availability on physician visits, test and procedure costs
• Democrats: 52 percent
• Republicans: 45 percent
• Total: 50 percent
7. Making sure patients have information about which physicians and hospitals are covered by their health plans
• Democrats: 53 percent
• Republicans: 50 percent
• Total: 49 percent
8. Helping Americans with moderate income pay high out-of-pocket medical care costs
• Democrats: 51 percent
• Republicans: 39 percent
• Total: 44 percent
9. Repealing the individual mandate
• Democrats: 27 percent
• Republicans: 51 percent
• Total: 38 percent
10. Repealing the ACA
• Democrats: 17 percent
• Republicans: 60 percent
• Total: 37 percent