Driven by the 2014 provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the percentage of uninsured adults fell by 30 percent over a 12-month period, according to new analysis.

The number of uninsured adults fell from 17.7 percent in September 2013 to 12.4 percent in September 2014, according to Urban Institute analysis conducted for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That's a drop of 30.1 percent in one year.

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