Poll: More voters trust Clinton on health care

WASHINGTON (AP) — From Medicare to medical costs, more voters trust Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to do a better job on health care issues facing the nation, according to a poll out Thursday.

Clinton has played a prominent role on health care issues for more than 20 years, since she emerged on the national scene as the leader of the failed effort to pass a bill providing health care for all in her husband's first presidential term.

Republican policy experts say they expect House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to take the GOP lead on health care if Trump is elected.

Ryan favors a major overhaul of Medicare for future retirees, gradually replacing open-ended government coverage with a limited payment that beneficiaries could use for a range of insurance options.

Clinton led by double-digit margins on most issues, but the closest split — 9 percentage points — was on the fate of the Obama health care law.

The Kaiser foundation poll was conducted from Aug. 18-24 among a nationally representative random digit dial telephone sample of adults that included 1,020 registered voters.