--- title: Obamacare: About 90% of U.S. Adults Now Have Health Insurance description: The uninsured rate has fallen under Obamacare canonical: https://time.com/3819233/obamacare-health-insurance-uninsured-rate/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-13T13:42:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:05:17.214Z article:section: Health og:title: About 90% of U.S. Adults Now Have Health Insurance og:description: The uninsured rate has fallen under Obamacare og:url: https://time.com/3819233/obamacare-health-insurance-uninsured-rate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: About 90% of U.S. Adults Now Have Health Insurance twitter:description: The uninsured rate has fallen under Obamacare twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # About 90% of U.S. Adults Now Have Health Insurance ## Video: How Health Care Is Changing for 2015 [Watch (HLS stream): How Health Care Is Changing for 2015](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/asBSrQOp.m3u8) (1:23)  _Published 2014-12-17. A focus on preventive care, wellness programs, and insurance updates are the main health care changes coming to employer-sponsored programs in 2015._ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Apr 13, 2015 1:42 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Apr 13, 2015 1:42 PM UTC Amost 90% of American adults now have health insurance, according to a [new survey](http://www.gallup.com/poll/182348/uninsured-rate-dips-first-quarter.aspx?utm%5Fsource=Well-Being&utm%5Fmedium=newsfeed&utm%5Fcampaign=tiles) released Monday. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index shows that the uninsured rate has dropped to 11.9% for the first quarter of 2015\. That’s down one percentage point from the previous quarter and down 5.2 percentage points since the end of 2013, when the expansion of coverage under President Obama’s health care reform law went into effect. “The uninsured rate is the lowest since Gallup and Healthways began tracking it in 2008,” [Gallup said.](http://www.gallup.com/poll/182348/uninsured-rate-dips-first-quarter.aspx?utm%5Fsource=Well-Being&utm%5Fmedium=newsfeed&utm%5Fcampaign=tiles) The rate of uninsured Americans rose to more than 17% by 2011, and peaked at 18% just a couple years later. It dropped significantly when the health care law was implemented. 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