• A Gallup poll recently discovered that healthcare rates behind only Iraq and immigration when Americans name the top problem facing the country.
• According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers' contributions toward the cost of family health coverage reached $2,973 in 2006, up $1,354 since 2000.
• The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) reports that 46 million people under the age of 65 had no medical coverage in 2005.

With the number of nonwhite Americans above 100 million for the first time, demographers are identifying an emerging racial generation gap. The Census Bureau estimated that from July 1, 2005, to July 1, 2006, the nation’s minority population grew to 100.7 million from 98.3 million which is about one in three of all Americans.

• According to a Feb. 9-11, 2007, Gallup Poll, Lincoln is back at No. 1 President with Americans.
• Lincoln is followed by Ronald Reagan with 16%
  • John F. Kennedy with 14%
  • Bill Clinton (13%) 
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt (9%)
  • Harry Truman 3%
  • Jimmy Carter 2% 
• By contrast, of the top three presidents on The Wall Street Journal poll's list, only one, Franklin Roosevelt, is from the modern period.
  • Further down, Reagan, ranks 6^th, Truman 7^th, Eisenhower 8^th, George W. Bush 19^th, and Clinton 22^nd.