The U.S. uninsured rate held steady in President Trump’s first year in office at 8.8 percent in 2017, which amounts to 28.5 million people without health insurance, according to new data from the Census Bureau released Wednesday.
The rate wasn’t statistically different from 2016, when 28.1 million people lacked insurance, the bureau said. It said 91.2 percent of people had some kind of health insurance last year.
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