Siding with health care insurers emerges as political liability in 2026 midterm elections

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

As a pollster, I have learned to listen closely when voters speak with clarity. On health care costs, voters in battleground congressional districts are speaking louder than ever. They do not like what Democrats have delivered over the past 15 years on health care, and they are increasingly supportive of the reforms being advanced by President Trump and Republicans in Congress.

This is a real political shift.

In a January survey of 1,000 likely voters in battleground congressional districts, 66% ranked the rising cost of health insurance as their single biggest health care concern. That dwarfs concerns about the quality of care they receive (18%) and the cost of prescription drugs (7%). For families, health care is a kitchen-table issue because it directly affects monthly budgets and long-term financial security.

Democrats, aided by a friendly media, are trying to pin rising costs on Republicans. Voters aren’t buying it. They understand that policies such as Obamacare and its expansion under President Biden, combined with a close alliance between Washington and large corporate insurers, have driven today’s affordability crisis.

Pouring hundreds of billions of dollars more in subsidies into the same system does not pass the smell test for families already stretched thin.

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