Doctor's Office Despite those benefits, some 27.5 million Americans under age 65 were uninsured in 2016, about 10 percent of that population. (Photo: Shutterstock)

In tiny Marion, North Carolina, the Buchanans decided that $1,800 a month was too much to pay for health insurance, and are going without it for the first time in their lives.

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