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Article: New Study Finds Voters Agree Healthcare Issues are Important in Choosing a President, but are Split by Age and Income on Which Candidate Best Represents Their Views.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- September 11, 2008
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Most Americans say that healthcare issues will be very important in determining which presidential candidate will get their vote, according to new TNS Healthcare research. Healthcare concerns are particularly important to voters 65 or older, with 75% indicating health issues will play a major role in their presidential choice. Even among the youngest voters-those 18 - 29-59% give very high importance to health topics (see also Drug Development).
Concerns around healthcare issues are strong across genders, as well as across age groups. Almost 70% of women and 63% of men say that they will give high importance to healthcare topics when deciding which presidential ...