700,000 more people uninsured during Trump’s first year

Published May 22, 2018 4:01am ET



The number of uninsured Americans climbed by 700,000 people during President Trump’s first year in office, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2017, 29.3 million people were uninsured, a 0.1 percentage point increase from 2016, when the number of uninsured had fallen to a record low of 28.6 million people.

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