health care in America, and realize that something must be done.

In order to attempt to correct the failures of the current health care situation, one must understand the problems that led to the deterioration of the health care system. Perhaps the main problem with health care today is that there are 37 million Americans without insurance, and another 20 million are underinsured.

Another large problem with the way health care is presently organized is - as Clinton helpfully points out - waste. Some common examples are:

Paperwork: There are thousands of insurance companies in the US, and each one has many forms for doctors and patients to fill out. So much so, that doctors spend more time improving their handwriting than healing people.

Greed and Profiteering: Some drug companies make over 10,000% profit on the drugs they manufacture. In 1991, the median income of doctors was $1

8.Cohn, Bob The Power of Sin Newsweek, October, 4 1993, p.51

The AMA (American Medical Association) is against many things in Clinton's plan, most importantly the imposition of cost controls and the failure to put financial limits on malpractice suits(In fact 600 doctors marched up the steps of Capital Hill "to defend their right to earn six times as much as the average American family, and still play golf on Wednesdays").

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