ABSTRACT
Health care and the uninsured has been a major topic in the United States over the past two decades. The distribution of health care to all U.S. citizens has consumed many hours of national media attention. As the cost of health care and the percent of the gross national revenue devoted to health care kept climbing during the 1980s and the 1990s, political leaders at the state and federal levels tried to find solutions to the dual problems of keeping the costs of health care down while covering more of the uninsured.1
