Number of uninsured Utahns dropped in 2016

SALT LAKE CITY — The number of uninsured Utahns decreased from 2015 to 2016, continuing a steady reduction in that number, according to new health coverage data from the U.S. Census Bureau.The bureau concluded in a report entitled Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, published Tuesday, that Utah's uninsured made up 8.8 percent of the state's population in 2016, compared to 10.5 percent a year earlier.Previously collected data from the bureau found the state had a 14 percent unin