'Obummercare' still a failure gallup poll reports

The Affordable Care Act, known more commonly by its popular name "Obamacare", requires that all Americans obtain health insurance by the beginning of 2014 or pay a penalty, a new poll from Gallup shows that 13.4% of Americans are still uninsured.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - In Texas that number is even higher, where 24% are not insured, whereas Mississippi had uninsured rates of 20.6% and Georgia lacked 20.2% insured.

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The percentage of Americans uninsured did drop from 17.3% (in 2013) to 13.4% as of the second quarter of 2014. But the following states still have a great number of uninsured.

Florida, 18.9%

Louisiana, 18.4%

Montana, 17.9%

Kansas, 17.6%

Oklahoma, 17.5%

Arizona, 17.2%

South Carolina, 16.8%

North Carolina, 16.7%

Idaho, 16.6%

California, 16.3%

Alaska, 16.2%

Nevada, 16.0%

In President Barack Obama's home state of Illinois, 12.3% of the people do not have health insurance.

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