PhotoRoughly 20 million more Americans have health insurance now than when President Obama’s health care law was passed in 2010. That’s up from 29 percent in 2013, before the main insurance coverage options under the health care law took effect. SouthernersMore than half of the uninsured live in states that have not expanded Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor. Most workers who don’t have health insurance have jobs at small companies, with fewer than 25 employees. Those companies are exempt from the health law’s requirement that employers offer health insurance to their full-time workers or pay a fine.

Source: New York Times August 18, 2016 03:56 UTC