The Affordable Care Act may still be in place, but the effects of a new administration and Congressional action on health care is taking a toll anyway: the rate of uninsured adults has risen in the first quarter of 2017.
According to updated poll numbers from Gallup-Healthways, conducted as part of their well-being index, 11.3 percent of U.S. adults are without health insurance in the first quarter of 2017.
That's after two consecutive quarters in the latter half of 2016 at the lower rate of 10.9 percent—a record low since Gallup and Healthways began tracking insurance coverage in 2008.
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