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Five percent of Americans interviewed after the healthcare exchanges closed report being newly insured in 2014. More than half of that group, or 2.8% of all Americans, say they got their new insurance through the health exchanges.

Most Americans are satisfied with the quality of their medical care (80%) as well as with their healthcare costs (61%). Still, 42% of insured Americans say rising healthcare costs are a major problem, outranking other healthcare complaints. Few ...

A majority of Americans say they are covered by private health insurance, while Medicare or Medicaid covers 3 in 10 adults nationwide, and 13% of U.S. adults have no health insurance coverage. Two-thirds of those with private health insurance ...

The uninsured rate in states that have chosen to expand Medicaid and set up their own marketplace exchanges based on the 2010 healthcare law has declined by three times as much as the rate in states that have not.

David Stockman's new book, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, is getting a lot of attention these days. I recommend you don't buy it. It's much better to ignore the book and continue to listen to the White House and ...

As House Republicans prepare to vote on repealing the healthcare law, the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index finds 16.4% of American adults were uninsured in 2010, statistically unchanged from 2009, but up from 14.8% in 2008. Hispanic Americans ...

Twenty-seven percent of Americans say they have a long-term medical condition, illness or disease that would be considered a "pre-existing condition."

The U.S. uninsured rate continues to decline in 2014, registering 15.9% so far in 2014 compared with 17.1% in the fourth quarter of 2013. The uninsured rate has dropped most among lower-income and black Americans.

Although a majority of U.S. adults in each income group perceive the taxes they pay as fair, higher- and lower-income Americans have become a bit less likely to say so in recent years. Middle-income Americans' views have been steady.

A new low of 44.8% of American adults report getting their health insurance through an employer in November, down from 50% in January 2008, when Gallup began tracking it. Over the same time period, the percentage of Americans with government ...