Health care concerns growing

important.

Unemployment came in second at 13 percent, followed by terrorism at 11 percent, and immigration and climate change tied at 10 percent.

Taxes and trade captured only 4 percent as the most important.

The findings of the poll were released Monday, one day before the collapse of the Senate’s effort to muster enough votes to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. It remains unclear whether the Senate will go forward on a plan to repeal the law known as Obamacare and devise a replacement plan later.

A Congressional Budget Office released a report on Wednesday that predicted 17 million more people would become uninsured, either from losing coverage or choosing to do without, by next year if the current law is repealed without an immediate replacement. In a decade that number could rise to 32 million, the CBO report said.

The high drama surrounding health care politics lately has left many worried — and apparently paying attention.