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President Clinton seized the crime issue for his party the old-fashioned way. He stole it.

Here’s a depressing statistic about the health-care crisis under Bill Clinton. Last year there were a reported 37 million Americans without health insurance at one time or another (a dubious statistic in itself—see page 16). But Bill Clinton revealed in his State of the Union speech that there are now 58 million people who lack insurance. This means that either the President is using phony numbers, or nearly one out of twelve Americans has lost his health insurance in Bill Clinton’s first year in office. If that trend continues, by the end of Clinton’s term nearly one-third of Americans will have lost their insurance. Now that is a health-care crisis.

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President Clinton seized the crime issue for his party the old-fashioned way. He stole it.

Here’s a depressing statistic about the health-care crisis under Bill Clinton. Last year there were a reported 37 million Americans without health insurance at one time or another (a dubious statistic in itself—see page 16). But Bill Clinton revealed in his State of the Union speech that there are now 58 million people who lack insurance. This means that either the President is using phony numbers, or nearly one out of twelve Americans has lost his health insurance in Bill Clinton’s first year in office. If that trend continues, by the end of Clinton’s term nearly one-third of Americans will have lost their insurance. Now that is a health-care crisis.