About 51 percent of U.S. adults say the federal government is responsible for making sure all Americans have health coverage.

That percentage is down from a recent peak of 69 percent, recorded in 2006, but it's up from 45 percent in 2014, and it's up from a recent nadir of 42 percent, recorded in 2013.

Justin McCarthy, a Gallup analyst, published those figures in a summary of results from surveys of 1,021 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, conducted from Nov. 4 through Nov. 8.

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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.