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By Ricardo Alonso- Zaldivar The Associated Press WASHINGTON » A grow- ing share of Americans got health insurance as sign-up season for President Barack Obama's health care law came to a close last month, a major survey released Mon - day has found. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index provides independent validation for White House claims that the law is expanding access, par - ticularly for working people with no coverage on the job. But the improvement, while substantial, doesn't appear as large as some of the num - bers claimed by the law's supporters. Gallup found that the share of adults without health in - surance shrank from 17.1 per- cent at the end of last year to 15.6 percent for the first three months of 2014. The decline of 1.5 per - centage points would trans- late roughly to more than 3.5 million people gaining cover- age. The trend accelerated as the March 31 enrollment deadline loomed. "The Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as 'Obamacare,' appears to be accomplishing its goal of increasing the percentage of Americans with health in - surance," said Gallup's anal- ysis of the findings. The survey is important because it combines the quick turnaround of me - dia polls with extensive out- reach usually seen in gov- ernment research. Gal- lup interviewed more than 43,500 adults, or more than 40 times the number in a typical national media poll. Coming a week after the close of the health care law's first enrollment season, Gal - lup's numbers suggest a more modest impact on cov- erage than statistics cited by the Obama administration. The administration says more than 7 million have signed up for subsidized private plans through new insurance markets. Addi - tionally, 3 million previously uninsured people gained coverage through the law's Medicaid expansion. Millions more remain po - tentially eligible for market- place coverage under var- ious extensions issued by the administration. White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said this weekend on CBS that 200,000 people who had started applications but weren't able to finish by the deadline got signed up later in the week. Ho we ve r, t he a dmi ni st ra - tion's numbers are not com- parable with Gallup's. The White House figure of 7 million-plus insurance ex- change sign-ups includes in- sured people who switched their previous coverage, as well as people who have not paid their first month's pre - mium, and who would there- fore still be uninsured. Also, Gallup is counting just adults, while the admin- istration figures include chil- dren as well. It may take much of the rest of the year to get a true bottom line of the health care law's impact on cover - age. Still, Gallup's numbers do show an improving trend. The share of Americans without coverage is at its lowest since late 2008, the survey found. AffORdABle cARe AcT Survey confirms gains in health insurance sign-ups Ringo H.W. CHiu — THe AssoCiATed PRess Applicants line up outside the seiu-uHW office during a health care enrollment event in Commerce on March 31. By david espo The Associated Press WASHINGTON » The Senate voted 59-38 Monday to res- urrect federal jobless ben- efits for the long-term un- employed, and a small band of Republican supporters swiftly appealed to a reluc- tant Speaker John Boehner to permit election-year ac- tion in the House as well. Steps are needed "to re- store unemployment bene- fits to struggling Americans," seven House Republicans wrote Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Vir - ginia. They released their letter as the Senate was be- stowing its widely expected approval on the legislation. Despite the appeal, the bill's prospects are cloudy at best, given widespread opposition among conserva - tive lawmakers and outside groups and Boehner's un- willingness to allow it to the floor without changes that Republicans say would en- hance job creation. The Senate vote itself, seven months before con- gressional elections, capped a bruising three-month struggle. Fifty-one Demo- crats, two independents and six Republicans voted for ap- proval. The bill was the first ma- jor piece of legislation that Democrats sent to the floor of the Senate when Congress convened early in the year, the linchpin of a broader campaign-season agenda meant to showcase concern for men and women who are do in g poo rl y in a n er a of e co - nomic disparity between rich and poor. In the months since, the Democrats have alter - nately pummeled Republi- cans for holding up passage and made concessions in an effort to gain support from enough GOP lawmakers to overcome a filibuster. Chief among those concessions was an agreement to pay the $9.6 billion cost of the five- month bill by making offset - ting spending cuts elsewhere in the budget. The White House-backed measure would retroactively restore benefits that were cut off in late December, and maintain them through the end of May. Officials say as many as 2.7 million job - less workers have been de- nied assistance since the law expired late last year. 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