To understand fully the persistent failure of the United States to enact national health insurance
requires an appreciation not only of the role of government and the dynamics of politics …

… This note examines the failure of national health care reform in recent years and the … ing
health care. Part I discusses the benefits of state solutions to the national health care problem. …

… Historical accounts often have trouble climbing from narrative to explanation; little of the
episodic scholarship on the failure of health reform contributes to our larger sense of the …

… antecedents in the battles over health insurance in the first half of the twentieth century. It was
in … , failing to establish a general system for financing health care. And when America finally …

… health care coverage, growing by 20.7% from 1989 through 1990. 7 The problem of paying
medical … government-funded health care programs and the health care system as a whole. 8 …

… out that the failed Clinton health care reforms were followed by incremental health insurance
reform in the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill and the incremental expansion of health insurance …

… , and renal failure, to … health care system today is not equipped, nor has it evolved, to
provide the integrated and coordinated care that meets the needs of patients of the 21st century…

… in twentieth-century American politics to enact universal health insurance. The second section
… where the undeniable failure of national health insurance legislation expressed the lack of …

… health care system. Its failure led to the private health insurance market launching initiatives
… greatly transformed the structure and financing of health services. As a result, the richest …

… After the 1,300page proposal failed to garner support, Clinton sought a compromise bill
from the divided Congress. By that time, however, Clintonwas weakened fromthe Whitewater …