Dr. Shannon Schumacher of KFF on the latest national polling results on health care costs

By: Clayton Henkel

Outlets: North Carolina Newsline

Published: February 9, 2026

Words: 138

Last Updated: 3 weeks ago

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The nation’s persistent affordability crisis continues to leave large majorities of Americans deeply concerned about the state of the country and dissatisfied with national political leaders and, as Newsline learned in a recent conversation with KFF senior survey polling analyst Dr. Shannon Schumacher, nowhere is this better evidenced than in the field of health care.

As Schumacher told us in a recent conversation, new KFF polling finds that the combination of soaring …

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