Robert Reich mixing percentages and raw quantities

In an op-ed in Sunday's Washington Post, Robert Reich wrote:

Meanwhile, our broken health-care system drains more of our dollars yet delivers less care. When President Clinton tried to tackle health care in 1994, it represented 14 percent of our GDP, and 38 million Americans were uninsured. Now, the nation spends 16 percent of its GDP on health, and about 44 million of us are uninsured.

So what's the catch? He's sweeping the population change under the rug. In 1994, the US population was about 260 million; it is now (2008) around 304 million. So the percentage of the population who are uninsured has stayed pretty constant: it's gone from 14.6% in 1994 to 14.5% now. Yes, we are spending more to insure that same percentage, but the numbers he uses in this op-ed exaggerate the magnitude of the increase. I'd call this example intentionally misleading, and not merely confused.