Growing Unemployment is Putting the Squeeze on CA's Healthcare System

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Published February 17, 2009 at 5:50 AM PST

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The California unemployment rate is now at 9.3 percent, and the number of out-of-work state residents is expected to grow. How is the economic downturn, and the growing number of layoffs impacting th

Maureen Cavanaugh : The recession is introducing us to a lot of things we'd rather not experience. We're seeing some stores we've shopped at for years disappear. It's hard to get a loan, and job security...well, who's got that anymore? And for people who have actually lost their jobs, they're being introduced to a world without health insurance. The newly uninsured are adding to the nation's long-term problem of millions of Americans who do not have health insurance.

As part of the KPBS series Rough Water: Navigating San Diego's Economy , our Health Reporter Kenny Goldberg examines how people losing their jobs and health insurance are affecting San Diego's health care system.

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Kenny Goldberg, health reporter for KPBS News.