Excerpt from Bill Clinton's Address on Health Care Reform But the health care system, as a whole, is in deep crisis. Health care spending now consumes 14% of GDP, up from 9.1% in 1980. If nothing is done, by the year 2000, nearly 19% of America's GDP will go towards health care alone. Some people say this is acceptable, because that's what it costs to keep our population healthy. But this means accepting that rising health care costs should consume over 100% of the projected increase in wages, produce 60% of the projected growth in the federal budget, and eat away two-thirds of our projected economic growth for the rest of the decade. But in fact, we would be spending that money without getting the security, implicitly, and the value that would help bring health and expanded opportunity to all Americans. Because we cannot hold down] health care costs and become further and further behind in our efforts to do so, we find our economy, and particularly the federal budget, under increasing pressure. Use the excerpt to answer the question. President Bill Clinton's address on health care (1 point) connected health care reform to economic prosperity. attacked Republican opposition to