Roughly 17 million of the 29 million consumers that may seek health care through Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's exchanges will be eligible for premium tax credits in 2014.

That's the estimate coming from a study released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, that said there are 29 million Americans that are either uninsured or purchase health care on their own.

More than one-third of those people eligible for subsidies live in just three states: California, Texas and Florida, states plagued with the highest rates of uninsured Americans.

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