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The U.S. uninsured rate in the third quarter rose to 12.3%, up 1.4 points since the end of 2016 and the highest since the last quarter of 2014.

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.

The reaction to the Supreme Court Affordable Care Act decision last Thursday is divided, as we would predict.

Americans are no more familiar with the healthcare law now than they were last August, when Gallup began asking Americans about it. Republicans are more likely than other adults to say they are very or somewhat familiar with the law.

Although support for a government-run healthcare system has edged up in the past five years, the majority of Americans continue to prefer a system based on private health insurance.

Americans are more likely now than in early 2014 to say the Affordable Care Act has helped them (16% say this, up from 10%) or has hurt them (27%, up from 19%). A majority still say the law has had no effect.

The percentage of uninsured adults in the U.S. rose to 11.7% in the second quarter of 2017, from 10.9% in each of the last two quarters of 2016.

Democrats view two Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices -- Anthony Kennedy and John Roberts -- more positively than Republicans do. Republicans are more positive toward another GOP appointee, Antonin Scalia.

Less than two months before the health insurance exchanges open, more Americans disapprove than approve of the healthcare law and many remain unfamiliar with it. The young, who are key to the law's success, know the least about it.

Congress this week did something which is fairly unusual these days -- it passed legislation that is directly in line with the public's assessment of priorities. The House and the Senate passed a bill that will direct more than $16 billion into ...