title: Why is health reform so difficult?
abstract: This article examines the possibilities for health care reform in the 111th Congress. It uses a simple model of policy making to analyze the failure of Congress to pass the Clinton health plan in 1993-1994. It concludes that the factors that created gridlock in the 103rd Congress are likely to have a similar impact in the present.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University, USA.
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Brady
authors.forename: Daniel P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Kessler
mesh_terms: D018166:Health Care Reform; D011050:Policy Making; D011057:Politics; D011639:Public Opinion; D014481:United States
references.citation: Rev Am Hist. 1997 Sep;25(3):520-5
references.pmid: 11619504
references.citation: J Health Polit Policy Law. 1995 Summer;20(2):447-54
references.pmid: 7636136
references.citation: Health Aff (Millwood). 2009 Sep-Oct;28(5):w917-25
references.pmid: 19689985
references.citation: J Law Med Ethics. 2004 Fall;32(3):465-73
references.pmid: 15490593
references.citation: Public Opin Q. 1993 Fall;57(3):394-427
references.pmid: 10130293
references.citation: J Health Polit Policy Law. 1995 Summer;20(2):329-72
references.pmid: 7636126