Obamacare has sharply increased the number of consumers buying their own insurance and those on Medicaid, a new Gallup poll finds.
Gallup revealed that 20 percent of consumers either were buying individual or self-funded insurance as of April, up from 16.7 percent in August 2013. And 9 percent were enrolled in a Medicaid program, up 6.8 percent from August.
Data was collected as a part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, and are based on a nationally representative sample of 14,000 interviews with adults each month.
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