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WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's estimate of the number of Americans without health insurance fell by nearly 2 million Friday, but not because anyone got health coverage.
The Census Bureau said it has been overstating the number of people without health insurance since 1995. The bureau blamed the inflated numbers on a 12-year-old computer programming error.
The bureau reissued figures for 2005 and 2004 on Friday. It plans to issue new numbers for every affected year in August, when the 2006 numbers are scheduled for release.
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