Editing Practice

Edit and rewrite the following paragraph. Look for problems in the following:

• verb forms
• verb tenses
• verb + gerund/infinitive
• modals
• sentence connectors and transitions
• relative clauses
• articles a/an/the
• pronouns and nouns
• prepositions
• punctuation
• word forms
• conclusion

1		The United States is facing the ethical crisis in the field of health care. Medical science been moving too quickly and our moral standards did not have enough time to catch up. As it has always been true people with more money could buy better health care the gap between the treatments available and the treatments the poor can expect grows larger every day. Pharmacy companies and medicine researchers have almost been to successful. They have discovered valuable new drugs that promise relieve for mildly discomforting problems, such as allergies to life-threatening conditions, such as cancer and AIDS. The patients with the failing hearts, the lungs, the livers, and the kidneys are given new lives with the transplant surgery and the lifelong drug treatment. Scientists create machines that can detect cancer long before normal tests would reveal it's presence. They have developed techniques for give childless couples the ability of having children. An artificial hip and a knee extends the productive life of older adults. Since expensive round-the-clock care in special nurseries, babies born as many as four months premature regularly save. All of this advancement is wonderful, of course. But who decides what level of treatment each person would receive. Should it be depend in their ability to pay, or will there be some other criterion? Although most people understand that some people should walk because they don't have enough money to buy a car, it is much more difficult to comprehend that some people must die because they don't have the money to buy the treatments and medicines that should save their lives. It is time to start a nation dialogue on the ethics distribution of medical care.