With just weeks left before the deadline to sign up for health coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, new polling numbers find that the number of the uninsured in the country continues to fall.

The uninsured rate for Americans is down, on track to be the lowest quarterly level measured since 2008 — and it's likely the result of Obamacare.

That's the latest word from Gallup, who found in its Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index that the rate currently stands at 15.9 percent. It was 17.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013.

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