Healthcare DIVE February 5, 2025
Democrats and Republicans both want to see federal lawmakers address critical public health concerns. However, they were split on which concerns were most important.
Dive Brief:
- Healthcare access and affordability is Americans’ top public health concern, followed by ensuring safe food and water and reducing chronic disease, according to a new survey published by Gallup and Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.
- Republicans were more likely than Democrats to list ensuring safe food and water as their top public health priority and less likely to list the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of their top three sources of trusted health information.
- However, both Democrats and Republicans support federal action on their top priority public...