What Happened to Americans' Support for the Clinton Health Plan?

Within a twelve-month period public support for the Clinton plan fell from 71 percent to 43 percent. The administration lost substantial support among two politically important groups--the elderly and Democrats. This outcome was brought on by a series of key strategic and substantive misjudgments by the administration in the choices that it made in the development of its plan. These particular decisions inadvertently reinforced the public's...