Bill Clinton: “We just completed kind of a brief tour of the hospital, and I met some of the nurses and patients and people who work…”

“We just completed kind of a brief tour of the hospital, and I met some of the nurses and patients and people who work here. We talked a little bit about the physician shortage in this county, a little about the problems with delivery of babies and the high rate of teen pregnancies, low-birth-weight babies, relatively low number of prenatal visits. We talked about some of the reimbursement problems of Medicare and Medicaid and the problem that this hospital has at the emergency room because they take everybody whether they have insurance or not. And I think that's a fair summary--and I met the wonderful, dedicated people. So why don't you lead off. Harold Scott. Thank you, sir. I want to let Mr. Bernstein give us an overview of Montgomery County medicine and how it relates to the rural problems overall.”