Experts say job losses pose new problems in era of rising costs. Since Hillary Clinton unsuccessfully led the charge for national health care reform when she was first lady in 1994, about 9 million more Americans — most of whom are working — are without health insurance. That finding and others in a new University of Minnesota report offer a state-by-state picture of people foregoing insurance because of rising costs and lack of income. ‘The case for reform couldn’t be clearer,’ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said in a news release from the organization, which focuses on health and health-care issues. ‘Further inaction means that costs rise, businesses struggle and workers go without. As high as the numbers of uninsured people seem to be, they don’t even reflect the current crisis, with millions of Americans losing their jobs, which puts their insurance status in jeopardy. And the more people who become uninsured, the harder it is on our health-care system.’ The report, ‘At the Brink: Trends in America’s Uninsured 1994-2007,’ found increases in uninsured residents, rising financial burdens for workers and decreases in private coverage in every state: […]