Because the Trump administration promotes its new TrumpRx web site and different efforts to decrease prescription drug costs, a rising majority of the general public is worried concerning the means to afford prescribed drugs, and huge social gathering majorities need the federal government to do extra to control costs, a brand new KFF Well being Monitoring Ballot reveals.

The brand new ballot reveals that 59% of the general public now say they’re at the least considerably involved about with the ability to afford prescribed drugs for themselves and their households, the biggest share since KFF first polled the query in 2018. This contains about one in 5 (22%) who’re “very involved” about paying for prescribed drugs.

About seven-in-ten (72%) say there may be not as a lot authorities regulation as there needs to be in relation to limiting drug costs, 5 occasions the share (13%) who say there may be an excessive amount of regulation of drug costs. In a uncommon second of bipartisan settlement, at the least two-thirds of Republicans (68%), independents (72%) and Democrats (77%) help extra authorities regulation of costs.

The survey, performed after the Feb. 5 launch of TrumpRx, a web site that lets shoppers seek for reductions on brand-name medicine, discovered {that a} third (35%) of people that use prescribed drugs say they’ve heard at the least “some” of them. Seven % say they’ve visited the web site to match drug costs, though the share is increased amongst individuals who use or have used GLP-1 medicine (16%), one of many classes of medicine obtainable on the positioning.

Earlier than the launch of TrumpRx, drug reductions had been obtainable via third-party platforms and immediately from drug producers. The ballot reveals that about four-in-ten (42%) individuals who use prescribed drugs say they’ve used such a reduction card or coupon previously 12 months. An identical share (39%) say they’ve in contrast drug costs on-line to search out the bottom worth. Fewer folks say they bought a less expensive drug from a web-based pharmacy with out utilizing insurance coverage (15%) or bought a drug immediately from the producer’s web site (8%).

A lot of the public, together with most independents, is skeptical that the Trump administration will decrease drug costs for folks like them, however President Trump’s base is extra optimistic.

The bulk (59%) of the general public say it’s “not too probably” or “by no means probably” that the Trump administration’s insurance policies will decrease drug prices for folks like them, in comparison with about four-in-ten (41%) who say it’s “very” or “considerably” probably.

A big majority of Republicans (79%) and supporters of President Trump’s “Make America Nice Once more” motion (88%) say they anticipate the administration’s insurance policies to decrease drug prices. A lot smaller numbers of independents (35%) and Democrats (11%) say the identical.

Waiting for the November midterm elections, extra voters say they belief the Democratic Celebration (38%) than the Republican Celebration (28%) in relation to higher addressing prescription drug prices, though 1 / 4 (27%) of voters say they belief neither social gathering. Democrats have an analogous confidence benefit in tackling well being care prices basically.

Unbiased voters even have extra confidence within the Democratic Celebration’s dealing with of drug prices than the Republican Celebration (31% vs. 18%), though a bigger share doesn’t belief both social gathering (41%).

This survey, designed and analyzed by KFF pollsters, was performed on-line and by phone between February 24 and March 2, 2026 amongst a nationally consultant pattern of 1,343 U.S. adults in English and Spanish. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus three share factors for the whole pattern. For outcomes based mostly on different subgroups, the margin of sampling error could also be better.