For years, Utahns have agreed that the economy needed attention from state-level elected officials, but this year, a local survey indicates voters have something else on their minds.
Health care shot up from its fourth place in the past three election cycles, and is presently the top priority among Utahns randomly selected to participate in the Utah Foundation’s 2016 Utah Priorities Project, released each gubernatorial election year.
“We want candidates for offices to be focusing on the issues that matter, rather than the kind of character attacks and sort of personal attacks we’ve been seeing in the presidential race so far this year,” said Utah Foundation President Stephen Kroes. “We want to inform voters and the candidates.”
Prolonged discussion on Medicaid expansion may have lifted that issue in Utah, but voter responses exhibited a clear distaste for the Affordable Care Act and associated rising medical costs, according to the report.
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