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The share of the U.S. population without health insurance fell to an all-time low of 7.7% in the first quarter of 2023, according to new data from the National Center for Health Statistics. The record low — which translates to more than 25 million uninsured people — probably won’t last for long, though, as states continue to remove millions of beneficiaries from their Medicaid programs following the official end of the Covid-19 pandemic. The drop in the uninsured rate, which had fallen from a pe