15% of Americans on Medicaid

Here's more evidence that hands-off government regulation of Wall St. combined with hands-on bailouts of TBTF banks has led by default to the growing socialist welfare state that laissez-faire, pro-business types wanted to avoid all along.

46.8 million Americans are enrolled in Medicaid, and growing.

Who needs socialist health care reform? The bad economy is forcing Big Guvmint's hand.


Medicaid enrollment rises nationwide, analysis finds
By Amy Goldstein
February 19, 2010 | Washington Post

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021805609.html?hpid=moreheadlines