These shows were taped 11 days before Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell withdrew the Clinton health-care proposal from Senate consideration. But as we know in retrospect, the issue by no means died with the bill. These shows help us to understand why the Clinton bill died, and to evaluate what has happened since. Dr. Seward: "If your basic premise is that my only purpose is to cut costs,... this is the area that I think we have to look at very very closely.... For instance,... just do generic prescribing, period. I'm sorry, from a clinical standpoint as a practicing family physician, there are certain trade name drugs that I think from a true chemical standpoint are the only things to provide.... Whenever you talk about costs, somehow you have to get it back to, How is it going to affect that patient?" ... Gov. Campbell: "There is a school of thought that exists in Washington that comes down from on high from some of the professors at Harvard--with whom I had the privilege to sit for countless hours and listen and learn very little--that they know best what we should do, that they understand more than we do." ... Mr. Scott: "As we know, the government cannot run health care. The average Medicaid recipient gets more than twice as much health care as the average employed person in this country. And they don't like the care, the doctors don't like how they're getting paid, nor does the hospital, and there's no control on quality."