Credit: The Gallup Organization
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Throughout the past year, Gallup has published nearly 90 articles about Americans’ health and well-being. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index uncovers new insights with its daily surveys, providing the most up-to-date data available on Americans’ sense of purpose, social relationships, financial security, connection to community and physical health.
The following list represents Gallup editors’ picks for the top 10 most important findings in 2014:
- Uninsured rate drops nearly four percentage points since late 2013: Gallup was among the first to report the decline in the U.S. uninsured rate, which coincided with the new requirement that Americans carry health insurance. The percentage of U.S. adults without health insurance was 13.4% in both the second and third quarters of 2014, down from 17.1% in the fourth quarter of 2013. This is the lowest quarterly uninsured rate measured since Gallup and Healthways began tracking it in 2008.
- Uninsured rate drops more in states embracing ACA: The uninsured rate among adults in the states that have chosen […]
