One in four Minnesotans had no health insurance coverage at some point during 2007 and 2008. Four out of five people who lacked health insurance coverage were employed, so it's not just a case of health care being tied to employment. Employers are dropping health care benefits, or price them at a rate that's too expensive for their employees to afford.
If that were not bad enough, Minnesota had the lowest rate of uninsured people among 49 states studied. So if 25% of Minnesotans were uninsured, and 80% of those had jobs, and those are among the best statistics in this country, the American health care situation looks pretty dismal.
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