In a new survey, the Commonwealth Fund asked people to identify what they think are the most important problems in the health care system and who should be best able to solve them.
With survey partners SSRS, they interviewed more than 25,000 U.S. adults in May 2026. Americans ranked the high cost of health insurance and health care as top concerns, regardless of their political party, with opinions split on who can best address the problems. For more information on the survey itself, see “How We Conducted This Survey.”
Findings
Americans across all insurance types and political affiliations say that the cost of health insurance and health care are the most important problems to solve in the health care system.
What Americans Want Fixed in Health Care — and Who They Think Should Do It
