Health care cost concerns
Nationally, roughly 71% of U.S. adults express very high concern about health care costs, with majorities in both parties sharing this worry. Utah residents are not immune to these pressures, making health care affordability a salient issue entering the 2026 election cycle.
What should Utah do to address the rising cost of health care for residents?
How OpenCampaign quiz-takers stand on this issue
31% call it a high-priority issue (rating it 7+ out of 10).
- Liberal28%
- Lean liberal13%
- Moderate23%
- Lean conservative8%
- Conservative27%
High-priority share over time
The high-priority share has ranged 22–44% since 2016. Election-year cohorts skew casual and under-rate every issue, so the dips around 2020 and 2024 partly reflect who took the quiz, not a shift in opinion.
Where do you stand?
What should Utah do to address the rising cost of health care for residents?
How important is this to you?
✓ You told us where you stand
Sources
Pew Research Center — https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/23/state-of-the-union-2026-where-americans-stand-on-key-issues-facing-the-nation
Roughly seven-in-ten adults (71%) say they are very concerned about the cost of health care. Most say the same about the prices of food and consumer goods (66%) and housing (62%).
Positions on this issue · liberal → conservative
- Expand Medicaid fully, pursue a public option, and cap out-of-pocket costs to ensure universal coverage in Utah.
- Increase state subsidies for low-income Utahns and regulate insurance markets more aggressively to lower costs.
- Support targeted reforms like price transparency and prescription drug cost limits while keeping the current system.
- Promote market competition and health savings accounts to drive down costs without expanding government programs.
- Deregulate the insurance market entirely and block federal mandates so Utahns can purchase plans that suit them.