Health care a big issue for voters in midterm elections

The survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation released Wednesday said 65 percent of voters believe a candidate’s position on pre-existing health conditions is the single most important factor or is “very important” in their decision in the November general elections.

Hart Research on Sunday in a poll for Protect Our Care said the lawsuit filed by Republican state attorneys general to invalidate key consumer protections in the Affordable Care Act “is likely to be a serious and significant self-inflicted wound for Republican candidates in this year’s election because it puts them in a position of defending what the large majority of voters believe to be indefensible.”