Obama's Health Care Reform Plan Is Based on the Clintons' Failed 1990s Model

By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group
Posted on December 4, 2008, Printed on December 4, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/109844/

WASHINGTON -- Here is a number easily understood by even the math-phobic: Every 1 percent increase in the unemployment rate leads to another 1.1 million Americans becoming uninsured -- and causes still another million more children and adults to become eligible for state health insurance programs.

This means that over the past 10 months, as the hemorrhage of jobs began to push the national unemployment rate toward its October level of 6.5 percent, about 3 million Americans were thrown off the insurance rolls or had their incomes fall so much that they became eligible for Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program.