Pew Poll: 71% of Americans Are ‘Dissatisfied’ With Direction of the Country; Less Than Half Think 2015 Will Be a Better Year

(Photo: Reuters/Larry Downing) U.S. President Barack Obama pauses while talking about the Affordable Care Act in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, November 14, 2013. Obama bowed to political pressure from his fellow Democrats on Thursday and announced a plan to let insurers renew for one year the health plans for Americans whose policies would be otherwise canceled due to Obamacare.

Most Americans believe the government is failing them

Health care reform tops the list of world or national problems for most Americans, even though respondents of new poll do not think current leadership in Washington can do anything about it.   Fuse/Getty Images/Fuse

Two-thirds surveyed in new poll say country headed in wrong direction