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Share of uninsured Americans increases for the first time since ACA went into effect, Census data shows

The number of uninsured Americans increased by 1.8 million between 2017 to 2018, increasing the percentage of Americans without health insurance by 0.6 percentage points.

The uptick represents the first increase in the percentage of uninsured Americans since 2014, when the bulk of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act went into effect.

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