ouse in 1992 the Clinton administration was anxious to implement new social reforms. Initially, the plan for Health Care reform had an overwhelming amount of support from the public as well as the media. In, "What Health Care Crisis" Stelzer states several different reasons for Clinton's decision to reform health care. The main reason being American's insecurity caused by a recession, "During a period of rising unemployment, enough American's found this prospect sufficiently unsettling to create a constituency for changes in the way health-insurance coverage is maintained"(Stelzer, 19). Another contributing factor that lead to the push for health care reform was the disturbing statistic claiming somewhere between 37 and 39 million Americans are without coverage. In addition the claim that 14%
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