If you have ever wondered about the American health care system and how the United States ended up struggling to reform its insurance system, then Small Business and Health Care Reform Hearings Before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, Washington, DC, January 26, March 10, March 16, June 15, and August 4, 1994 is a good place to start. This book is a publication of the United States Congress, House Committee On Small Business.

One of the campaign promises of President Bill Clinton was to do something to help the 37 million people who were without health insurance. In 1994, three days of hearings were held to review and comment on President Clinton's proposed Health Care Reform Act. During the hearings, the fault lines of the American health care system were laid bare, exposing the gaps in health care coverage as well as the potential impact health care reform would have on small business. Erskine Bowles testified about the Administration's plans and how they would be implemented. Bowles' remarks about the escalating cost of health care were prophetic, as the crisis on deepened during the next two decades.

Republican criticism of the health reform was that it was too large and too complex for the government to administer, despite the fact that many facets of the plan were already part of existing structures such as Medicare. The testimony of those who were opposed to the plan as too costly and burdensome became the blueprint for opponents of health care reform in America. The same arguments are made against Obamacare, which was passed almost twenty years after the Clinton plan.

The testimony collected in Small Business and Health Care Reform Hearings Before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives outlines the argument for and against government reform of the health insurance system. The book is a living history of an issue that is still fiercely debated in the United States. Historians, researchers, and people interested in politics will want to read this important book.

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