This publication may be reproduced for limited educational or academic use, however please enquire with Eubios Ethics Institute. University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA President Bill Clinton was elected on the strength of his promise to cure the ills of America's health care system. It is an enormously complicated piece of legislation. The American health care system works well in many ways. Hospitals are numerous and superbly equipped.
Most physicians are specialists with long years of training.
Research facilities, both public and private, are the world's most productive. Nevertheless, Americans are generally agreed that the health care system is in need of fundamental reform. Prices in the health care field have inflated at twice the general rate for over a decade. Moreover, these huge sums still leave a seventh of the population uninsured and an equal number in danger of bankruptcy should serious illness strike. Nor is the nation's health as good as we would like.