Excerpt from a Press Release from Bill Clinton’s White House on Health Care Reform, September 22, 1993
Every month, 2 million Americans lose their insurance. One out of four—63 million— Americans will lose their health insurance coverage for some period during the next two years.
37 million Americans have no insurance and another 22 million have inadequate coverage.
Losing or changing a job often means losing insurance. Becoming ill or living with a chronic medical condition can mean losing insurance coverage or not being able to obtain it.
Long-term care coverage is inadequate. Many elderly and disabled Americans enter nursing homes and other institutions when they would prefer to remain at home. Families exhaust their savings trying to provide for disabled relatives.
Many Americans in inner cities and rural areas do not have access to quality care, due to poor distribution of doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics and support services. Public health services are not well integrated and coordinated with the personal care delivery system. Many serious health problems—such as lead poisoning and drug-resistant tuberculosis— are handled inefficiently or not at all, and thus potentially threaten the health of the entire population.
Use the excerpt from the press release to answer the question.
This press release from the Clinton administration suggests that he believes health care reform is necessary because heath care
A.
insurance is too expensive.
B.
facilities lack suitable capacity.
C.
delivery in the U.S. is unstable and inefficient.
D.
workers are declining in number and resistant to change.