Health reform is back on the agenda, and not a moment too soon. U.S. health financing is a costly mess that is putting more and more Americans and their employers at risk. Yet nothing guarantees that the burgeoning debate over healthcare will end differently from past debates. The U.S. has witnessed epic healthcare battles roughly once every 15 years -- most recently the Clinton plan of the early 1990s. Yet with the exception of the passage of Medicare and Medicaid… more
