Health Affairs January 17, 2018
Katie Keith

  • On January 16, 2018, Gallup and Sharecare released their most recent poll on the percentage of uninsured adults in the United States. The poll—based on interviews with more than 25,000 adults nationwide during the fourth quarter of 2017—found that 12.2 percent of U.S. adults were uninsured. This is up from a record low of 10.9 percent in 2016, representing an increase of 1.3 percentage points in the past year.

An increase of 1.3 percent may not sound significant but it represents an additional 3.2 million Americans who were uninsured in 2017. It is also the largest single-year increase that has been observed over the past decade since Gallup began collecting this data in 2008. The authors attribute the...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Public Exchange
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