In Illinois, the number of jobs with health insurance fell 660,000 between 2001 and 2005.

The numbers come from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which would like to spin them into a call for increasing government control of health care.

On the other hand, you might, as I do, see it as yet another reason why we need to develop a strong market for insurance that sells across state lines, to individuals and associations, and to start using insurance as insurance rather than an expensive form of pre-paid medical services.