Americans' Top Concerns if Health Care Reform Passes

If a health care reform bill is passed into law, the biggest concerns that most Americans have are the cost, increased government involvement and the effect on quality of care and coverage, according to a Gallup poll conducted Nov. 5-8.

Twenty-four percent cited cost in answer to an open-ended Gallup question, particularly costs to individuals and businesses, affordability of care and higher premiums.

Twenty-four percent worried about government involvement, with 18 percent concerned about government-run health care, bureaucracy and the possibility of socialized medicine, with 6 percent uneasy about the so-called "public option."

Twenty percent cited some variation of the effect changes would have on their health care: 7 percent worried about the effect on quality of care; 5 percent about the ability to get needed treatments; 4 percent about the effects on senior citizens and Medicare; and 4 percent about their ability to see their current doctors and keep their current plans.