Health Care Reform Is Dead—Long Live Health Care Reform, , ,

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 Rooseveltʹs promise of compulsory health insurance in the 1912 presidential campaign. [Dionne EJ Jr, Hacker JS: Health care reform is dead—long live health care reform. Ann Emerg Med December 1997; 30:742-745.]