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In the fourth quarter of 2016, the U.S. uninsured rate held at 10.9%, the lowest in Gallup and Healthways' nine-year trend.

Gallup editors highlight the most important health and well-being findings from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index in 2016.

Americans' dissatisfaction with healthcare costs is highest among the uninsured, but nearly half of those with private healthcare plans are also dissatisfied.

Americans are more likely to name cost than access as the most urgent health problem facing the U.S. The two issues had previously tied for first.

Americans are generally happy with their own healthcare, more negative than positive about the Affordable Care Act and leery of federal involvement in running healthcare.

In the third quarter of 2016, the uninsured rate reached a low of 10.9% in Gallup's and Healthways' nine-year trend. This is down from 17.1% in the fourth quarter of 2013 before a key healthcare provision, the individual mandate, took effect.

In the U.S., 65% are satisfied with the way the healthcare system works for them, down slightly from 67% in 2014. Those with government health plans are most satisfied, and Democrats are more satisfied than Republicans.

Americans' support for the Affordable Care Act remains basically unchanged since May; 44% currently approve of the law. Nearly three in 10 Americans say the law has hurt their family, the highest Gallup has measured to date.

Physical health trends for U.S. adults have been mixed during Barack Obama's presidency. Overall self-assessments of health have worsened, and obesity and diabetes have climbed, but reports of high cholesterol have trended down.

Life evaluations among all major racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. have improved during Barack Obama's presidency. But blacks' life evaluations have retreated in Obama's second term after spiking in his first.