oor, and it is a problem that presently affects about 15 percent of all Americans. Second, the term can refer to the denial of commodities to those who have the money to buy them:
The question now being raised is whether health care should be rationed in this sense, whether its availability should be limited, even to those who can pay for it. This kind of rationing would affect the 85 percent of all Americans who currently have health insurance and any others who may later be added to their ranks (Aaron and Schwartz 418).
Once the Clinton Plan was announced, various Republican groups offered plans of their own. It was clear that there was a split in the Republican ranks on the issue and that the different proposals took different approaches to the problem. There were three basic proposals showing the different groups involved and the ideological and practical differences among them. One was offered by Senate Republicans, another by House Republicans, and a third by a group organized around Senator Phil Gramm and taking its own route to
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