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In his recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, President Obama relied on data from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index to assess changes and identify patterns in states' uninsured rates.

In the second quarter of 2016, the uninsured rate remains at 11.0%, matching the first quarter for the lowest rate in Gallup's eight-year trend. This remains down from 11.9% in the fourth quarter of 2015.

Americans' top priority for the next president continues to be the economy, although they also frequently mention immigration, healthcare, national defense and education.

If Donald Trump were elected president, Americans would be very positive about his projected efforts to unite Democrats, independents and Republicans, but are generally opposed to several other steps he proposes to take in his first 100 days in ...

Asked separately about three possible courses for the future of the Affordable Care Act, more Americans favor replacing it with federally funded health insurance for all Americans than favor either keeping it in place or repealing it.

Americans are split on whether they approve or disapprove of the Affordable Care Act, but overall, they are steadily seeing more benefits to the law since 2012.

Gallup looks at how Americans viewed the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the political stakes in naming a replacement.

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.

Nearly three in four American adults (74%) who pay all or some of their health insurance premiums say the amount they pay has increased over the past year, including a record-high 36% who say their costs have gone up "a lot."

Slightly fewer than one in three Americans say they have put off medical treatment in the past year because of the cost. This figure is in line with readings since 2006, but higher than readings prior to that.