title: Health care reform is dead--long live health care reform.
abstract: The 1993 Clinton health care reform effort was not the end of reform but the inauspicious start of a fiercely contested round of reform that may take another decade or two to complete. The 1993 Clinton plan was just the latest stage of a battle for national action on health care than began with Teddy Roosevelt's promise of compulsory health insurance in the 1912 presidential campaign.
authors.affiliation: The Washington Post, USA.
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Dionne
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Hacker
mesh_terms: D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006278:Medicare / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States; D019472:Universal Health Insurance / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence