HUFFINGTON POST: …The percentage of Americans without health insurance is at its lowest since Gallup started tracking such data in 2008.
According to Gallup’s most recent data, 13.4 percent of Americans lacked health insurance in April. That’s down from 15 percent in March and 18 percent in the third quarter of 2013…
Gallup’s latest data is also proof that Obamacare is working to insure the people who need health coverage most. According to the poll results, which are based on telephone interviews with a random sample of 14,704 adults, the uninsured rate of people from households earning less than $36,000 a year has fallen by 5.5 percent since the end of 2013, more than any other income subgroup. The percentages of uninsured blacks and Hispanics — who are more likely to be uninsured than whites, Gallup found — have also fallen by 7.1 percent and 5.5 percent, respectively. Still, one-third of Hispanics remain uninsured, according to the Gallup data… (more)
