Survey: Rate of uninsured drops to lowest point in a year
January 23, 2014, 07:09 am
By Mario Trujillo
The amount of people who lack health insurance has dropped to its lowest level in more than a year, according to a poll.
According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index released Thursday, the U.S. uninsured rate has dropped to 16.1 percent — down from 17.3 percent in December. Gallup noted that number is slightly lower than any time since December, 2012.
Rates for nonwhite Americans and the unemployed dropped by the sharpest amount in the last month. Unemployed Americans saw their rate cut by 6.7 percent in a month, while nonwhite Americans experienced a drop of 2.6 percent.
The numbers come as individuals began to receive insurance through the ObamaCare health exchanges for the first time at the start of January.
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