QUESTIONS

are frustrated that town hall meetings have become forums for target practice on them.

That’s why we picked out your most frequently mentioned areas of concern and are printing the answers today, Monday and Tuesday. Today, your questions about health care.

On Monday, you’ll see answers in our Metro & State section about President Donald Trump and whether the people you elected favor independent probes of Russian involvement in the 2016 election, possible Russian contacts by Trump or his aides and of Trump’s allegation about President Barack Obama’s team conducting surveillance of Trump.

On Tuesday, you’ll read the five officials’ answers about the environment, especially prospective cuts to the Lake Erie cleanup; whether they will agree to hold town hall meetings and when; and why people in Washington can’t get along. Those, too, will be in the Metro & State section.

Of course, these aren’t close to all the questions you submitted.

Many of you shared compelling personal stories: a 62-year-old man living on disability funds who already has experienced several major surgeries is worried about how to pay for future medical bills; several students related their struggle to pay off college loans; older folks wondered about the fate of Social Security and Medicare; a recovering pill/heroin addict is concerned whether his treatment will continue.

Several experts asked detailed questions, from a microbiologist who taught at Ohio State University and questioned the seeming lack of science-based decisionmaking, to a Marysville doctor raising several issues with the GOP plan to replace Obamacare.

And then there were questions such as these:

“What, if any, action is scheduled for our government leaders to start the battle for regulations to curb the present very small print that is present on most of the boxes in our new society.”

“Which news agencies in Ohio do you think are fake?”

“If there was just one slice of pizza left and you accidentally dropped it on the ground, would you still eat it?”