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Arkansas and Kentucky continued to have the biggest declines in the rate of uninsured adults in 2015, followed closely by Oregon. Nine states now have uninsured rates below 7.0%, compared with only one before 2014.

Nearly three in four American adults (74%) who pay all or some of their health insurance premiums say the amount they pay has increased over the past year, including a record-high 36% who say their costs have gone up "a lot."

About 7.26 million Americans have gotten health insurance coverage since late last year and 4% of Americans became insured for the first time in 2014.

Twenty-three percent of Americans feel the Affordable Care Act has hurt them or their families -- the highest figure Gallup has recorded for the question. Meanwhile, 10% say it has helped them, and 63% say it has had no effect.

Americans name healthcare as the top financial problem facing their family, while concerns about low wages have fallen to pre-recession levels.

The large majority of uninsured Americans plan to get health insurance rather than pay the fine. But awareness of the new insurance exchanges is low among the uninsured, with less than half planning to get coverage through them.

Speaking at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, earlier this week, President Barack Obama extolled the positive impact of the Affordable Care Act, his signature legislation, saying, "While good, affordable healthcare might seem like a ...

With Monday's deadline for enrolling in an insurance plan past, political party ID remains the most influential predictor of whether an individual disapproves of the healthcare law.

For the first time in nearly a decade, more Americans say the Supreme Court is too conservative than too liberal.

Americans say that, in the long run, the Affordable Care Act will make the healthcare situation in the U.S. worse (48%) rather than better (35%). These attitudes have changed little since late November.