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The uninsured rate was 11.4% in the second quarter of 2015, down from 11.9% in the first quarter. The rate has dropped most sharply among minorities and lower-income adults since the requirement to have health insurance took effect in early ...

Democrats have expressed more confidence in the U.S. medical system since 2014. Before then, Republicans were usually more confident.

In President Barack Obama's State of the Union address tonight, he will, to some degree, address the healthcare legislation he signed into law in March 2010 -- the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

A majority of U.S. adults continue to think the federal government should ensure universal healthcare coverage, while they also prefer that the U.S. healthcare system be based on private insurance rather than government-run.

Arkansas and Kentucky continued to have the biggest declines in the rate of uninsured adults in 2015, followed closely by Oregon. Nine states now have uninsured rates below 7.0%, compared with only one before 2014.

The U.S. uninsured rate continued to fall in the first quarter of 2015, to 11.9%. This is down 5.2 percentage points from the end of 2013, before the requirement for Americans to have health coverage took effect. The uninsured rate is down most ...

Americans tend to say the 2010 U.S. healthcare law will make things better for those who do not have health insurance and for those who get sick, but that the law will make things worse for taxpayers, businesses, and doctors.

After the midterm elections, Americans are most likely to say the healthcare overhaul passed earlier this year goes too far (42%), while 20% say it is about right and 29% believe it does not go far enough. Most of those who say the law goes too ...

Any new effort to reform healthcare will meet with significant challenges but should directly involve the views of the people themselves.

Which of these is the biggest threat to the future of the U.S.? Big government, big business, or big labor?