Independents may be much more likely to have trouble paying for health care or medicine than Republicans are, and Democrats may have almost as much trouble paying for care.

Dan Witters and other analysts at Gallup, Princeton, N.J., have published data supporting that conclusion in a summary of results from Gallup surveys of 400,000 U.S. adults conducted from Jan. 2, 2011, through March 31, 2012.

The analysts found that Republicans generally reported having an easier time paying for the necessities of life than Democrats or independents reported, and that independents reported having the most problems.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.