The number of Americans lacking health insurance—a number that declined yearly under the Affordable Care Act—jumped during the first year of the Trump administration.

The Los Angeles Times reports that while the 1.3 percent increase in uninsured found by the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Indexin its fourth-quarter poll sounds modest, it's the "first time since at least 2008 that the share of adults without insurance increased from the previous year."

At the end of 2017, the report says, 12.2 percent of U.S. adults were uninsured; that's up from 10.9 percent at the end of 2016. According to the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index, that translates to 3.2 million Americans losing health coverage in 2017.

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